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During a visit to the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), UN peacekeeping chief Jean-Pierre Lacroix stressed that attacks against the displaced persons are unacceptable and called on the authorities to thoroughly investigate these grave incidents.

He was scheduled to visit and assess DRC's troubled Ituri and North Kivu provinces from February 22.

Beyond the reach of bloody conflicts in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DR Congo), rescued apes swing from one branch to another under the leafy canopy at a wildlife sanctuary. On the edge of a national park that is home to endangered gorillas, the Lwiro Ape Rehabilitation Center (CRPL) has for two decades nursed wounded and traumatized animals to recovery, and taken in orphans. The center houses scores of chimpanzees, gorillas and bonobos among its wards, often saved from poachers in ...

In 2021, the Democratic Republic of Congo’s biggest province, Tshopo, lost 12,000 hectares (30,000 acres) of intact forests to fires. Researchers based in the provincial capital, Kisangani, suspect the record-breaking forest loss is linked to expanding cultivation of cacao by recent migrants from neighboring North Kivu province. These unbroken forest landscapes are some of the […]

KINSHASA: DR Congo president Felix Tshisekedi on Thursday lashed out at “cases of indiscipline” at all levels of...

Militia groups across eastern regions of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) are continuing to target displaced civilians in a growing number of

Download logoMilitia groups across eastern regions of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) are continuing to target displaced civilians in a growing

Militia groups across eastern regions of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) are continuing to target displaced civilians in a growing number of

There has been a sharp increase in tribally motivated violence targeting internally displaced people in refugee camps in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo. In the latest attack, 62 people were killed.

Eighteen people were killed on Tuesday in an attack in remote northeast DR Congo by CODECO, a notorious ethnic militia.