The Imaginary Tree that Hides a Forest Despite being nearly 80 times smaller than the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Rwanda is often blamed for the instability and poverty that characterize ...

GOMA, Congo — The United Nations’ humanitarian chief called Thursday for more international support for displaced people in Congo’s rebel-controlled east during his first visit to the ...

Funding Crisis Stalls UN Probe Into Possible War Crimes in Congo By Olivia Le Poidevin GENEVA (Reuters) -A U.N.-mandated commission investigating suspected human rights violations and war crimes ...

Violence against children in Haiti increased by nearly 500% last year, according to a United Nations report, ranking the Caribbean nation as dangerous a place for children war-torn Gaza, the ...

Nikolai Ashurov, an Israeli commander accused of ordering and taking part in the killing of 15 paramedics, rescue workers and UN staff in Rafah, has surfaced in the DRC Congo as a mercenary ...

This year, a rebel army called M23 has captured large sections of eastern Congo, exposing women there to a familiar weapon of war: rape.

GENEVA – Critical funding gaps are severely hampering humanitarian efforts in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and beyond, leaving thousands without life-saving aid and pushing an ...

Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. The crisis in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is getting worse. In ...

Former DR Congo President Joseph Kabila has called for the withdrawal of foreign troops from the east of his country, emphasizing that peace can only be achieved when the Congolese take the lead ...

As chairman of the OAU, Kenyatta's appeal to President Johnson to stop sending arms to the Congo was seen as an embarrassment.

The Congo crisis is one of the incoming Trump administration’s first major foreign policy challenges, but the escalation in death and destruction seems to have been met with a shrug from Washington.