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  • A member of MONUSCO, one of the forces in the eastern DRC where the M23 is operating, clears Unexploded Ordnance (UXO). Credit: UN Photo/Sylvain Liechti.
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    The return of M23: Is there a way out for the DRC?

    By Stephanie Wolters
    November 1, 2022
    Several international forces are deployed in the eastern Congo, where the Rwanda-backed rebel group continues to seize towns and territory. Last week, Angola’s President ...
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  • Chinese illegal mining in the Congo Basin.
    Congo-KinshasaEconomyGPJ

    “I am powerless”: Chinese company mines with impunity in Congo Basin

    By Zita Amwanga
    October 20, 2022
    In January, officials ordered Xiang Jiang Mining to cease operations. Nine months on, the mine is still open and residents are still protesting. Not ...
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  • In the rainforest in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Credit: Photo by Axel Fassio/CIFOR.
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    Congo’s oil auction: foiling climate colonialism or filling the coffers?

    By Kristof Titeca, Catherine Windey & Olivier Bahati Mastaki
    August 23, 2022
    The DRC has two main goals in selling oil blocks that overlap with the world’s second largest rainforest. Neither involves developing oil. On 28-29 ...
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  • President Emmanuel Macron of France during his three-country tour in Africa. Credit: Présidence de la République du Bénin.
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    Liberté, Egalité, Impunité

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  • Kakule Sivyaghendera, who has been a primary school teacher for nine years, teaches in Lubero territory, North Kivu, DR Congo. He has never been paid a salary. Credit: Merveille Kavira Luneghe/GPJ.
    Congo-KinshasaGPJSociety

    “I have to work in a field”: 300,000 teachers in DRC going unpaid

    By Merveille Kavira Luneghe
    July 22, 2022
    Since primary education was made free in 2019, there has been a steep rise in both numbers of students and teachers working for nothing. ...
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  • Mahamat Déby, Chairman of the Transitional Military Council and President of Chad on an official visit to Rwanda in March 2022. Credit: Paul Kagame.
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    Chad’s transition to nowhere

    By Ine Van Severan & David Kode
    July 20, 2022
    15 months into an 18-month transition, there are few signs of it ending. And the Western-backed interim president is acting a lot like his ...
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  • Judges in Francois Beya Kasonga's trial in the DR Congo are set to pass a verdict on 23 June.
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    The unseen trial of Congo’s “phantom spymaster” and what it means

    By Jean-Michel Nlandu
    June 21, 2022
    The veteran political operator François Beya Kasonga had been one of the president’s inner circle, until his sudden arrest. Few people manage to navigate ...
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  • Uganda's military is engaged in Operation Shujaa in DR Congo. Credit: Credit: Rick Scavetta, U.S. Army Africa.
    Congo-KinshasaEditor's PicksPoliticsUganda

    “Total Success”? The real goals of Uganda’s Operation Shujaa in DRC

    By Kristof Titeca
    June 20, 2022
    Joint Ugandan-Congolese military exercises may have more to do with securing roads and oil than rooting out rebels. On 16 November 2021, three suicide ...
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  • The climate crisis has made weather patterns more extreme and unpredictable in northern Cameroon. Credit: Carsten ten Brink.
    CameroonClimate crisisEditor's Picks

    The climate crisis tinderbox in northern Cameroon

    By Nalova Akua
    May 12, 2022
    Amid growing resource scarcities, dozens have died and tens of thousands have been displaced by fighting triggered by a cow drowning. Last August, two ...
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  • Moise Muhindo Kisuba builds a guitar at his workshop in Kirumba, south Lubero territory of the Democratic Republic of Congo. Behind him, Egide Kasereka Kighoma, an apprentice, works on a drum on July 15, 2021. Credit: Zita Amwanga/Global Press Journal.
    Congo-KinshasaCultureGPJSociety

    The guitar maker of the eastern Congo

    By Merveille Kavira Luneghe
    April 1, 2022
    Moïse Muhindo Kisuba believes affordable instruments and training can break a cycle of violence that has claimed thousands of lives. Moïse Muhindo Kisuba sits ...
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