Families in Mongbwalu grieve as Ebola returns, exposing serious gaps in healthcare and outbreak preparedness.

Efforts to stop the latest outbreak of the deadly disease have been hampered by armed conflict in eastern DR Congo.

The decades-old U.S. humanitarian aid agency USAID was largely dismantled in the early days of President Trump’s second term by Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency. The authors of a new ...

As Ebola cases spread across eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and into Uganda, the International Rescue Committee ...

The DRC conflict has been going on for decades. Thousands of innocent lives have been lost while scores of women, children and the elderly have either become internally displaced or rendered refugees.

Following its takeover of Goma in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, the Rwanda-backed M23 rebels signalled they were closing in on the key city of Bukavu, the capital of South Kivu. On 30 January, ...

If formally recognised, unarmed civilian protection and community-based early warning can offer a path to sustaining ...

President William Ruto takes part in the joint EAC/SADC summit that seeks to restore peace in the eastern DRC, in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania on February 8, 2025. [PCS] President William Ruto, the ...

Members of the M23 armed group sit on a pickup truck during a patrol as women carrying fruits walk past a market, following the takeover of the city by the M23 movement in Bukavu on February 18, 2025.

Over the last year, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has been embattled by a new wave of conflict and atrocity crimes. At the beginning of the year, M23 rebels seized several regions, including ...

The intensifying conflict in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has provoked fears of a regional war. Several of the DRC’s nine neighbouring countries, as well as South Africa, already ...