The economy of the Democratic Republic of the Congo - a nation endowed with vast natural resource wealth - continues to perform poorly. Systemic corruption since independence in 1960, combined ...

The Republic of Congo (Congo-Brazzaville), located in Central Africa, covers 342,000 km 2. Its population of 6.1 million people is largely young, with 47% being under age 18. More than half of the ...

A Stanford Congo Week teach-in discussed human rights and environmental issues associated with the mining of critical ...

The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is one of the worst conflict-affected countries to be a child. Today, the number of people in the DRC facing extreme hunger is among the highest in the world.

The world is witnessing some of the highest levels of conflict in decades, with more than 110 armed conflicts occurring ...

The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) released 1685 mostly ill inmates from the country’s largest prison on Sunday amid ongoing efforts to reduce overcrowding at the facility. The release from ...

Cancellation of acreage is ’not positive’ for potential DR Congo investors amid rash of licensing rounds elsewhere in Africa ...

In a prestigious ceremony held at Leica headquarters in Wetzlar, Germany on October 10, Italian-born photographer Davide ...

Prof. James A. Robinson of the University of Chicago has been awarded the 2024 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences ...

The DMZ divides the peninsula by separating North Korea (Democratic People’s Republic of Korea) from South Korea (Republic of Korea). The DMZ is 2.4 miles wide and centers on a demarcation line that ...

The DRC is home to over 529,000 refugees and asylum-seekers who have fled violence in neighbouring countries, mainly the Central African Republic, Rwanda, Burundi and South Sudan. The majority (72%) ...

The human rights situation across the Democratic Republic of Congo remains dire, with internal conflicts and poor governance contributing to a severe food crisis and the internal displacement of 5 ...