An international festival promoting peace that was due to take place in violence-racked eastern Democratic Republic of Congo has been called off for security reasons, organisers said on Thursday.
People forced to flee war, violence and persecution are increasingly finding themselves on the front line of the global ...
Mr Gertler arrived in DR Congo in 1997, shortly after Mr Kabila's father, Laurent-Desirée Kabila, came to power. In 2000, when civil war risked ending Kabila's reign as suddenly as it had begun ...
The need for stronger international action against the country’s military junta has never been greater.
Yves Kaduli, a refugee from the Democratic Republic of Congo, had spoken publicly before as an activist for refugees. But he hadn’t yet spoken as someone who had been victimized himself.
Rwanda-backed M32 rebels now control some 70% of the territory in eastern Congo's North Kivu province. They've been advancing ...