CIVICUS speaks with Claude Iguma, a mining governance expert with a PhD in Social Sciences, who is based in Bukavu, South Kivu province, eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).

“As long as poverty, injustice and gross inequality persist in our world, none of us can truly rest.” — Nelson Mandela ...

The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is grappling with one of its worst cholera outbreaks in recent history, exposing deep systemic cracks in public health, water infrastructure, and humanitarian ...

A solar minigrid in a Goma neighborhood where almost everyone lacked access to electricity just five years ago is offering a ...

Advocates believe it’s a model that can be successful throughout the Democratic Republic of Congo and beyond to electrify places where conflict and poverty have left people behind, using ...

Hope in the DR Congo is fueled by a recent peace deal and the impact of potentially qualifying for the 2026 World Cup.

The economy of the Democratic Republic of the Congo - a nation endowed with vast natural resource wealth - continues to perform poorly.

The world today is going through an intriguing dilemma of globalisation vs. localisation. The concept of globalisation has been making rounds since Theodore Levitt, a Harvard Business School professor ...

Representative Sheila Cherfilus McCormick (D-FL) issued a statement praising the recent peace agreement between the ...

In developing economies in general, the extreme-poverty rate has been whittled down to single digits ... Several economies—especially the Democratic Republic of Congo, Mozambique, and Zimbabwe—are ...