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Fighting for control of the Democratic Republic of Congo's mineral wealth has killed millions. Trump wants to end it, and ...

President Trump announced a peace treaty brokered between the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Rwanda, ending a ...

In the Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwandan-backed rebels have overrun ... and the State Department is advising Americans to shelter in place and leave the DRC when and if they can.

What’s happening in the Democratic Republic of Congo? People in the eastern provinces of the Democratic ... as people are fleeing insecurity to places ill-equipped to support them, lacking food, water ...

Violence and brutal human rights abuses increased in the Democratic Republic ... in eastern Congo were accompanied by brutal rape. In a region already labeled "the worst place in the world to ...

The Democratic Republic of Congo’s Foreign Minister warned Sunday that an “attack of unprecedented intensity is taking place in plain sight of the world” as rebel forces and allied Rwandan ...

Democratic Republic of Congo, September 2, 2024. In December 2023, President Félix Tshisekedi was elected for a second term amid a deteriorating human rights and humanitarian situation.