Northern California county warns of ‘thick, poisonous smoke,' declares emergency See a K9 beagle's first day back at work after being assaulted by a traveler A wildfire that destroyed historic Grand ...

Every year on July 11th, the global community observes World Population Day, a United Nations initiative established in 1989 to draw attention to the urgency and importance of population issues. As we ...

Democratic Republic of the Congo The DRC is home to over 529,000 refugees and asylum-seekers who have fled violence in neighbouring countries, mainly the Central African Republic, Rwanda, Burundi and ...

Mining operations in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. Image credit: Enough Project By Amani Matabaro Tom, Fellow and Scholar at Risk, Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, HKS; Founding Director, ...

Learn about sources of continued violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo and how the United Nations, African Union, and neighboring countries are struggling to curtail it.

He was a revolutionary and a national hero whose assassination shocked the world. The Democratic Republic of Congo on Wednesday celebrated the 100th anniversary of Patrice Lumumba’s birth.

A military vehicle carries a gold-capped tooth belonging to DRC independence hero Patrice Lumumba to a memorial built in his honour in Kinshasa, 30 June 2022 ...

The Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) completed the first review under the Extended Credit Facility (ECF) Arrangement for the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) approved on ...

Representative Sheila Cherfilus McCormick (D-FL) issued a statement praising the recent peace agreement between the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Rwanda, saying the United States could ...

The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is the second-largest nation in sub-Saharan Africa, with a rapidly growing population of more than 100 million. The DRC is endowed with exceptional natural ...

The transition to a circular economy is critical for achieving sustainable development, resource efficiency, and building a resilient future for all. Over the past decade, the European Union (EU) has ...

The economy of the Democratic Republic of the Congo - a nation endowed with vast natural resource wealth - continues to perform poorly.