While engaged in relief efforts in the war-ravaged Democratic Republic of the Congo, the World Health Organization is also focusing efforts on data collection and analysis of the rapidly changing situation as a basis for future humanitarian support. Fiona Fleck reports.doi:/entity/bulletin/volumes/87/1/09-020...
The George Soros-funded Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa (OSISA), among others, has warned that the lack of credible results risks plunging Congo back into violence that the United Nations and its peacekeepers could not contain.
This paper examines the challenges facing the protracted crisis in the Democratic Republic of Congo as they relate to the international response in eastern DRC, with a particular focus on the relationship between humanitarian assistance, early recovery and stabilisation.It argues that supporting recovery...
DR Congo humanitarian crisis: What to know Ongoing fighting between the Democratic Republic of the Congo and an armed militia group called M-23 has left the African country in one of the world's largest humanitarian crises. The United Nations estimates roughly a quarter of the country faces foo...
Reports were circling that Rwandan troops had crossed the border into Goma just 5km from where we were standing - an invasion later confirmed by the UN top official in the DRC, Bintu Keita. Sky's Yousra Elbagir reports from the city of Goma in the Democratic Republic of Congo ...
"the unending crisis." By the end of the twentieth century scholars concluded that the Zairian (Democratic Republic of Congo; DRC) state no longer existed. To be sure, state security agents had occasionally demonstrated their existence by shooting- up university campuses or by rioting and looting...
The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is the site of one of the world’s worst ongoing humanitarian crises. The country suffered what has been called “Africa’s world war” from 1996 to 2003 from which almost 4 million people died, compared to the 228,000 dead and missing from the 200...
Rwandan-backed rebels have occupied a second major city in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). The Congo River Alliance, a group of rebel outfits including M23, said in a statement its fighters "decided to assist the population of Bukavu" in addressing its security cha...
The Democratic Republic of Congo (D.R.C.) is looking to expand operations to dig, or drill, for oil. 刚果民主共和国正在寻求扩大开采石油的业务。 The central African country is known for its mineral riches. 这个中非国家以其丰富的矿产资源而...
The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) officially declared the end of its 11th Ebola outbreak Wednesday, six months after the first cases of the deadly virus were reported.