M23 rebels on patrol. The M23 rebel group that has led a twenty-month insurgency in the east of the Democratic…
UNICEF Sudden humanitarian disasters can separate families. The trauma is then compounded further by the difficulty in reuniting family members.…
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Men collect water from Lake Kivu in Goma, DRC.Phil Moore/Al Jazeera Actor and activist Ben Affleck believes that community-based organizations…
Congolese farmer. When it comes to the priorities of fragile and conflict-affected states, nutrition is often low on the list.…
The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is by many measures one of the world’s most difficult places to live.…
Howard G. Buffett is pushing the international community to fully restore aid to Rwanda. When a UN Group of Experts (GoE) report found that Rwanda was supporting rebels fighting a deadly conflict in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), a number of countries including the U.S. and Britain cut or suspended foreign aid in protest. Howard Buffett and Tony Blair loudly protested the aid cuts.
In Ethiopia, 11 countries signed a “Peace Framework Agreement” intended to marshall regional support for conflict resolution in restive eastern Congo. Mark Goldberg of UN Dispatch interviews Prof Laura Seay, Assistant Professor of poli sci at Morehouse College on the prospects of this newest push.
Congo refugees in July, fleeing fighting in the eastUN The situation around the military conflict in DR Congo is changing…