and customary succession conflicts. The aim of this research is to map and identify ‘what works’ in security interventions in the DRC. The basic assumptions of SSR (Security Sector Reform) ...

These words from Pascal Mirindi, a student and activist in Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), encapsulate the deadly links between war, the plunder of resources, and climate breakdown.

(I encourage you to look at some of the map graphics in the report displaying ... found that “the probability of conflict in the DRC—specifically, violence against civilians, battles, riots ...

This conflict itself dates back three devastating decades. Its was triggered by the Rwandan genocide, when both refugees and combatants flooded over the border into neighboring DRC. This swath of ...

Most people in DRC have not benefited from this wealth. A long history of conflict, political upheaval and instability, and authoritarian rule have led to a grave, ongoing humanitarian crisis. In ...

The US and China are in a race to secure greater access to Africa’s vast mineral reserves with an infrastructure push by land ...

The Rwandan-backed M23 rebel group, active since 2021 in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), seeks to control ... back to colonial migrations and conflicts around land rights among Hutu ...

The experts identified Rwanda as a smuggling route for stolen minerals from the DRC. According to the Canadian conflict minerals research group IMPACT, gold is smuggled from the Kivu regions of ...

THE Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has been engulfed in a protracted conflict with clearly vested external interests fuelling the country’s sad instability. In less than a year alone ...

With at least 113,000 cases of conflict-related sexual violence (CRSV) reported by the United Nations (UN) in 2023 alone, PHR called for immediate action by the DRC government, neighboring ...

After two decades of ongoing conflict and insecurity, the DRC has the highest number of displaced people in Africa and the second highest number of severely food insecure people in the world. Every ...