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DRC: Can the Kivu-Kinshasa green corridor transform a war economy into an economy of hope?

Félix Tshisekedi is banking on one of Africa’s most ambitious conservation and development plans to transform the future of ...
International Rescue Committee

IRC reaction to armed attack against IRC vehicles in North Kivu, DRC

Goma, DRC, May 12, 2022 — On 11th May 2022 in Kimoka Village, North Kivu, DRC, two International Rescue Committee (IRC) vehicles returning from IRC project sites were attacked by armed men. The driver ...

Stitches in time: the artist chronicling the DRC’s blood-soaked history in embroidery

Using handmade needles and thread, Lucie Kamusekera has recorded the decades of conflict she has lived through in the Congo ...
Mercy Corps

Humanitarian Catastrophe Unfolds in DRC’s North and South Kivu as Violence Escalates: INGOs Urge Immediate Action

International Non-Governmental Organizations (INGOs) operating in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) express their grave concern over the consequences of ongoing combat in the city of Goma since ...
CNN

UN says more than 700 killed in just five days of fighting in DR Congo

Goma, the largest city in eastern DR Congo’s North Kivu province, fell under the control of the AFC/M23 rebel coalition on Monday, the rebels told CNN. This was the latest in a string of territorial ...
UNHCR

DRC: Thousands reported newly displaced in North Kivu

With recent fighting in and around Goma, UNHCR is extremely concerned about the situation of displaced people in Democratic Republic of the Congo's North Kivu province, especially children and other ...