Kinshasa Graveyard Home to Hundreds
Despite the health risks, officials say hundreds of families are living in a cemetery in the Congolese capital, Kinshasa. Municipal authorities seem powerless to act. However, visiting the Kinsuka...
View ArticleWho’s Watching Those Unblinking Eyes in the Sky?
On the long meadows of Prospect Park in Brooklyn, New York, a man pilots an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) – more commonly referred to as drones – in figure eights to the amusement of his Labrador. A...
View Article“Drone” a Dirty Word in the U.N. Lexicon
The “drone”, one of the eminently controversial lethal weapons deployed by the United States in its war against terrorism, is obviously a dirty word in the U.N. lexicon. So when Under-Secretary-General...
View ArticleMarket Gardening Provides Livelihoods for Refugees in DR Congo
Standing behind her market stall in Masisu, in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), which overflows with cabbages, carrots and onions, Marceline Dusabe does not fit the traditional profile of an...
View ArticleNorth Kivu Refugees Hope to Find Peace in Uganda
As dawn rises over Nyakabande, a village in southwestern Uganda, people line up in front of a reception tent, exhausted and carrying only the few belongings they could bring across the border. Most of...
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Child Sexual Exploitation on the Rise in North Kivu
A street in Goma’s city centre, the capital of North Kivu in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, has been nicknamed “the ward of death” because of the brutal crimes that frequently occur there....
View ArticleLocal Communities Forced to Pay Salaries of DRC Army and Rebels
On the way to his fields, Denise Mambo, a resident of Kitshanga, North Kivu in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, stops at a rope laid across his path. “No one is allowed to go past this rope...
View Article‘Born in War, Grown up in War, Now Time for Rehabilitation’
Sungu Mizele, a Congolese national living in Yambio, in South Sudan’s Western Equatoria state, earns a living selling the fruit and vegetables that she grows in her backyard, at the local town market....
View ArticleMore Rebels Seek Asylum After War Crimes Suspect’s Surrender
As the Rwandan government said on Thursday Mar. 21 that it would do all it could to ensure the speedy transfer of war crimes suspect General Bosco Ntaganda to the International Criminal Court, fighters...
View ArticleSmall Miners – from Digging in Danger to Becoming Legal
Congolese small-scale miner Elizabeth Tshimanga has made a successful living from prospecting. But like many artisanal miners in Africa, hers has been a long and tough journey marred by harassment and...
View ArticleSouth Africa Deployment to DR Congo Opposed
Kholekile Dlamini has been devastated by the death of her son Xolani Dlamini, a South African National Defence Force soldier who died in the Central African Republic. Like many South Africans, she had...
View ArticleThe Forced Inheritance of DRC’s Military Kids
The children of deceased police and army officers in North Kivu, eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, are finding themselves forced to adopt their late fathers’careers in the armed services to...
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Q&A: Why ‘Rape Victims Must Talk About Their Trauma’
Rape is often perceived as an individual trauma, but in reality its impact extends far beyond a single person and instead affects entire communities, complicating the already challenging task of...
View ArticleThe Quest for the Autonomy of Mining DRC Province
The Mai-Mai Kata-Katanga rebel group operating in Katanga, in south eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, say that they are engaged in an armed campaign for the autonomy of the province because they...
View ArticleDR Congo Waits for a Less ‘Shy’ UN
As the first of South Africa’s troops are expected to begin arriving in the Democratic Republic of Congo as part of the United Nations intervention force at the end of April, governance experts have...
View ArticleLocals Flee Congolese Rebels
When M23 rebels tried twice to arrange a protest march against a United Nations resolution to deploy an intervention brigade with an offensive mandate to eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, they had...
View ArticleNot Safe for Rwandan Refugees to Return
The Congolese government is demanding a comprehensive strategy for a lasting solution for the repatriation of 127,537 Rwandan refugees estimated to be in the country. This is according to Congolese...
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Fears of Rebel Infiltration of DR Congo Army
M23 rebels near Sake, Eastern DR Congo. The rebel group withdrew from Goma on Saturday, Dec. 1. Credit: William Lloyd-George/IPSThe “blind and unrestricted” reintegration of M23 deserters into the...
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Pressure Mounting on U.S. over Congo Violence
A Congolese man transports charcoal on his bicycle outside Lubumbashi in the DRC. Credit: Miriam Mannak/IPSWith casualties in the long-running conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) now...
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Advocates Cheer Tightening of Extractives Transparency Standards
Over the past decade, EITI is said to have facilitated reporting on nearly a trillion dollars in revenues from natural resources. Credit: BigstockDevelopment groups and corruption watchdogs are...
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