The Lisungi project has empowered refugee women in Congo by providing conditional cash transfers, training, and small ...

But for women in the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s east, and by extension, its neighbors, ever scared that the ongoing crisis there might spill over to us, this rhetoric feels like a cruel ...

The presidents of Congo and neighboring Rwanda have met in Qatar for their first direct talks since Rwanda-backed M23 rebels ...

Mvemba Dizolele, senior fellow and director of the Africa Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, sits down with James M. Lindsay to discuss the renewed fighting in the ...

Then they raped me.” Further reading: DR Congo's displaced women, children endure harsh reality The attack took place February 14, shortly after 10 a.m. Like Pascalie, at least 25 other women in ...

The United Nations says Burundi is seeing its largest influx of refugees in decades as tens of thousands of people flee the ...

Fighting by Islamic State and other terrorist groups over minerals and power has led to widespread killings and rape in the ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Rebel leader of group of Alliance Fleuve Congo (AFC) including M23, Corneille Nangaa, addresses a news ...

DRC: the exploitation of resources goes hand in hand with extreme violence against women In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, women’s bodies are on the front line of violence. In mining areas, ...

In early February 2025, male prisoners in the Democratic Republic of Congo launched a prison break. In their mass escape, the ...