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 ...
JD Supra

Key Changes to the DRC Mining Code: A New Era for Investors and National Development

The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), home to some of the world’s richest deposits of cobalt, copper, and other critical minerals, enacted major revisions to its Mining Code in March 2018. These ...
Forbes

DRC: Cholera Epidemic Rapidly Spreading Across The Country

Over the last year, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has been embattled by a new wave of conflict and atrocity crimes. At the beginning of the year, M23 rebels seized several regions, including ...
Jurist

UN rapporteur urges DRC to combat human trafficking amid eastern conflict

The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) must take immediate action to combat human trafficking amid ongoing conflict in the country’s eastern regions, a high-ranking UN official urged Friday.
International Rescue Committee

DRC: Waterborne diseases threaten to compound escalating humanitarian crisis, warns the IRC

Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo, January 30, 2025 — The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) continues to face an escalating humanitarian crisis as conflict-driven displacement leaves millions ...
Forbes

DRC: A Child Was Raped Every Half An Hour

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dr Ewelina U Ochab is a Forbes contributor, lawyer, and author. In January 2025, the situation in the Democratic Republic of the ...
Jurist

UN Security Council condemns M23 offensive in DRC

The UN Security Council on Friday unanimously adopted a resolution condemning the ongoing offensive by M23 rebels in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and urging the Rwanda Defence ...
The Conversation

DRC vs Rwanda at the African Court: why it could be a decisive moment for human rights and justice on the continent

Frans Viljoen does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...
Save the Children

DRC: Over 375,000 Children Out of School in North Kivu at Risk of Violence

KINSHASA, (March 7, 2025) – About 375,000 children are missing out on education and are vulnerable to violence and recruitment by armed groups in the North Kivu region of the Democratic Republic of ...
CNN

Fighting in Africa’s mineral-rich DRC killed over 3,000 in less than 2 weeks. Here’s how your phone plays a part

A rampaging rebel group has claimed the capture of another mining town in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), a little over a week after it took control of the region’s largest ...
The Conversation

DRC conflict: talks have failed to bring peace. Is it time to try sanctions?

Patrick Hajayandi does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...