Second Congo Wars News Today

Analysis in English on Democratic Republic of the Congo about Peacekeeping and Peacebuilding; published on 20 May 2024 by ACSS

Within weeks of the handover of bases by the departing United Nations peacekeeping mission to the Congolese government, the posts in South Kivu province

The Islamic State's Central Africa Province, known locally as the Allied Democratic Forces, or ADF, mounted its second attack in western Uganda since last Friday. The mobile unit currently operating inside Uganda represents the first sustained guerrilla presence in the country since 2007.

During November, soldiers of the March 23 Movement (M23) have been approaching Goma in the eastern territory of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), close to the Rwandan border. About 180.000 p

Formerly Zaire, the Democratic Republic of the Congo is located in central Africa and has a small coastline.

According to famed and prolific historians Will and Ariel Durant, over the past three and a half millennia there has been at least one war in 92 percent of those years.

Nobel Laureate Dr Denis Mukwege credits his egalitarian upbringing to his mother, who insisted that her sons chip in with household chores along with the daughters

Eco-guardians of the Kahuzi-Biega National Park. https://www.youtube.com/embed/l__lPNbNqUc A project by Robert Carrubba and Cintia Garai/Wildlife Messengers. Photography by Robert Carrubba. As a nonprofit journalism organization, we depend on your...

Email Savanna elephants have returned en masse to Virunga National Park, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It’s a development that has stunned park staff and signaled a turning point in Virunga’s quest for stability in a region beset by violence for decades. In August nearly 600 elephants crossed into Virunga from neighboring Uganda’s Queen Elizabeth National Park. More than six months later, they’re still there, suggesting they feel secure in their new home. “There has been no...

Elephants return to conflict-ridden national park Haley Cohen Gilliland © Photograph by Brent Stirton/Getty Images Last summer, a herd of nearly 600 savanna elephants crossed from Queen Elizabeth National Park in Uganda to Virunga National Park in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The migration was thrilling for Virunga’s embattled rangers; the elephant population in the park had dwindled to about 120 in recent years due to poaching and the threat of violence. Savanna e...