In the early 1990s, long before petrol stations, supermarkets, and hardware stores reshaped the urban landscape, the area between what was then known as Rwandex and Mburabuturo pulsed with a distinct ...

On December 27, 2025, just after Boxing Day—the world woke up to what should have been an unremarkable, festive interlude between Christmas and the New Year. It was the kind of noiseless global pause ...

On the eve of a decisive period for Congolese football, Sébastien Desabre is making his ambitions crystal clear. After reaching the semi-finals of AFCON 2023 and now just one game away from a historic ...

The fall of Uvira, the second largest city in South Kivu province, to the Rwandan-backed armed group March 23 Movement (M23) on 10 December must catalyse the European Union (EU) and its member states’ ...

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Dec. 4 (UPI) --President Donald Trump was expected to host the leaders of Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo on Wednesday in Washington, D.C., as they sign a peace treaty to end conflict and ...

In 2024, the DRC experienced an uptick in primary forest loss, with 590,000 hectares of forest lost, according to satellite data visualized on Global Forest Watch. Subsistence agriculture continues to ...

Over the last year, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has been embattled by a new wave of conflict and atrocity crimes. At the beginning of the year, M23 rebels seized several regions, including ...

The Democratic Republic of Congo is facing a prolonged crisis, exacerbated by the recent cuts to USAID. Karla Capers/Oxfam Oxfam’s CEO and President Abby Maxman shares her experience traveling to DRC, ...

‘Spillover event’ in which an animal infected humans is likely to be the cause of 47 confirmed cases and 25 deaths. An outbreak of Ebola has been reported in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) ...

Planet China: Seventh in a series about how Beijing’s trillion-dollar development plan is reshaping the globe—and the natural world. Chinese miners are illegally extracting Congolese gold on a vast ...

The urgency for change: Are traditional DRC debug flows enough? Physical verification engineers know all too well the reality of debugging massive integrated circuit (IC) designs. For years, the ...