International Rescue Committee

Conflict in the DRC: What you need to know about the crisis

The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is facing a rapidly escalating humanitarian emergency, with civilians paying the price of escalating conflict. As violence surges in Eastern DRC, displacement is ...
NPR

American DRC coup plotters are on their way back to U.S.

Three Americans sentenced to death in the Democratic Republic of Congo for their role in a failed coup last year in the central African country have been returned to the United States, a Congolese ...
Reuters

US sanctions Rwandan minister, militant over DRC conflict

WASHINGTON, Feb 20 (Reuters) - The United States on Thursday said it was imposing sanctions on a Rwandan government minister and a senior member of an armed group for their alleged role in the ...
UNHCR

DRC: UN officials raise alarm at the dramatic impact of prolonged conflict on women and children, including increased risk of conflict-related sexual violence on displaced people

NEW YORK/GENEVA – The Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict, Ms. Virginia Gamba, the Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Sexual Violence in ...
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Kabila sentenced to death: What it means for DRC and what’s next

Former president of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Joseph Kabila, was on Tuesday sentenced to death by a high military court on charges of treason, war crimes and other serious offences, in ...