Democratic Republic of Congo President Felix Tshisekedi announced on July 22 the imminent launch of a national dialogue, prompting the country's main opposition coalition to postpone a planned protest; the move was cautiously welcomed as a possible opening in DRC's deepening political stand-off
Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo's three-decade insurgency, now centered on Rwanda-backed M23 rebels holding North and South Kivu, is Africa's largest displacement crisis.
full dossier ›UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk on July 9 called on the Democratic Republic of Congo's armed forces, the M23 rebel movement and all other armed groups in eastern Congo to immediately stop using explosive weapons in populated areas, citing mounting civilian casualties in North and South Kivu
African health authorities declared Thursday that the Bundibugyo Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo has now killed more than 600 people and is spreading faster than any previous outbreak on record; the WHO puts the case fatality rate at 34%, and health officials say the virus is outpacing the response
Kinshasa's application, the third attempt in 25 years, accuses Kigali of genocide, torture and sexual violence from 1996 to the present; Rwanda dismisses evidence of M23 support
Eight simultaneous large-scale wars across Ukraine, the Middle East, Africa, and Southeast Asia are driving displacement, energy shocks, and geopolitical realignment.
Rare transition metal essential to capacitors in every smartphone, server, and weapon system; over 60 percent of global supply comes from artisanal mining in conflict-affected eastern DRC.
A French doctor who returned from a humanitarian mission in DR Congo boarded a commercial Kinshasa flight while nearly asymptomatic; WHO says global spread risk remains low but contact tracing is under way
FARDC drones hit an M23 position five miles north of Goma; M23 and Wazalendo militias clash along the Masisi-Walikale border, both sides building up troops in the Kivus despite the US-brokered truce
A fifth Joint Oversight Committee met in April; the DRC-M23 Doha framework's key provisions remain unimplemented, Qatar, Togo, the US and the AU keep the process alive as fighting continues