On July 15, 1994, an unprecedented 250,000 Rwandan refugees crossed from Gisenyi (now Rubavu) into Goma, in what was then Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of Congo--DRC).

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).On 27 June, the ...

The United States regularly keeps citizens abreast of any concerns regarding travel to foreign countries. This week, the Department of State issued a number of travel warnings for Americans. On ...

The US and Qatar-brokered peace agreement must be followed by disengagement and return of displaced families, DRC says.

A new peace agreement offers hope of quelling hostilities between Kinshasa and Kigali in the eastern Democratic Republic of ...

A peace agreement brokered by the White House to stem the bloodshed in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo was signed in ...

For months, the capital of Tanganyika, a province bordering South Kivu, feared the arrival of M23 rebels and their Rwandan ...

The peace agreement recently signed between the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Rwanda is only a beginning; the r ...

M23 rebels in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo recently allowed the BBC to visit a huge mining site under their control ...

A United Nations report says Rwanda provided critical support to the M23 rebels who seized key cities earlier this year in ...