Marijuana is illegal in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, ... In one of the poorest countries in the world, a population of around 600,000 indigenous forest people, widely known as Pygmies, ...

Bunia, Democratic Republic of Congo — At least 46 people, half of them children, were killed in a militia attack on a camp for displaced people in the Democratic Republic of Congo, security ...

Pygmy representatives have asked the United Nations to set up a court to try government and rebel fighters from the Democratic Republic of Congo for acts of cannibalism against their people. Sinafasi ...

In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, a record nearly 7 million people have been displaced due to ongoing conflict and violence. That’s according to the International Organization for ...

3 People attack the Rwanda Embassy in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Jan. 28, 2025, in protest over the Rwanda-backed M23 rebels' advances into the eastern capital Goma.

The people of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) bear heavy burdens. Their resource-rich country is one of the five poorest in the world.Profound insecurity characterizes the country’s east ...

The crisis in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is getting worse. In January, even before the Rwanda-backed M23 seized Goma and Bukavu, and before the collapse of much of the humanitarian aid ...

Almost 3,000 people have been killed in fighting in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the UN has said. Vivian van de Perre, a senior UN official based in the city of Goma, said the ...

More than 50 people in the north-western of the Democratic Republic of Congo have died of an unidentified illness. The outbreak began on January 21, with 419 cases having been recorded since.

Almost 3,000 people killed in Democratic Republic of the Congo fighting. Bodies are decomposing on the streets of Goma that have not yet been collected, with hundreds of thousands displaced in the ...