Mining operations in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. Image credit: Enough Project By Amani Matabaro Tom, Fellow and Scholar at Risk, Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, HKS; Founding Director, ...

The remains of a Congolese customs worker who was killed for resisting a bribe and beatified by the Vatican have been ...

Learn about sources of continued violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo and how the United Nations, African Union, and neighboring countries are struggling to curtail it.

Ongoing violence in Ituri province in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) could be at an end following a six-group agreement signed this week (1 July), the United Nations (UN) mission in the ...

Unilateral deep-sea mining, such as that planned by the Trump administration, could have grave impacts on Africa.

"The Trouble with the Congo suggests a new explanation for international peacebuilding failures in civil wars. Drawing from more than 330 interviews and a year and a half of field research, it ...

The United Nations’ Women, Peace and Security (WPS) agenda suffers from an ongoing burden: the need for less talk and more action. Invariably, several speakers raise this issue at the Security Council ...

The responsibility to protect is more than a principle — it is a moral imperative, rooted in our shared humanity and the U.N.

UN Secretary-General António Guterres has welcomed the peace agreement between the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and ...

Rabat – Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo signed a peace agreement on Friday in Washington, D.C. This peace agreement has the potential to bring decades of violence to an end.