In Stanford's first inaugural Congo Week, students and experts celebrate Congolese heritage and discuss important issues regarding the DRC.

The M23 rebel group that is backed by Rwanda has emerged as a more potent force after being crushed during their first rebellion in 2012 ...

Rebels backed by Rwanda are seizing huge tracts of the Democratic Republic of Congo. The rebels, known as M23, say they are protecting ethnic Tutsis, the minority group massacred in a 1994 genocide.

Rwandan-backed M23 rebels say they are now in control of the key eastern Congolese city of Goma. Their fighters continue to ...

Lauren Crosby Medlicott speaks to those inside Goma about dead bodies on the streets and overwhelmed hospitals ...

Critical minerals factor into the fight.

Jean Jacques Yack hangs a photo of Floribert Bwana Chui Bin Kositi, a Congolese man killed for fighting corruption in 2007, ...

But across the country in the state of Washington, a brand-new Democratic governor seems to understand just how unpopular government bureaucracies have become. At his inauguration this week Gov.

“Still, there was hope for justice for victims of abuse in such places as the Democratic Republic of Congo and the Central African Republic, where new efforts were underway to prosecute individu ...

(London) –United Kingdom authorities are seriously undermining democratic rights, especially the right to peaceful protest, Human Rights Watch said today in its World Report 2025. The Labour ...

As blazes continue to ravage parts of California, the heir apparent of the Democratic Party has found himself at the centre of a political firestorm stoked by rivals and Donald Trump. On January ...

The Republic of Congo set up a REDD+ program in the Sangha and Likouala regions, aiming to reduce deforestation and store carbon from 2020 through to 2024. However, in the Sangha region alone, ...