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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.
    Congo-KinshasaEditor's PicksPoliticsRwanda

    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.
    Climate crisisCongo-KinshasaEconomyEditor's Picks

    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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  • 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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  • Judges in Francois Beya Kasonga's trial in the DR Congo are set to pass a verdict on 23 June.
    Congo-KinshasaPoliticsTop story

    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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  • 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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  • Local women watching gorillas in natural habitat in Kahuzi-Biega National Park. Credit: Pole Pole Foundation.
    Climate crisisCongo-KinshasaEconomy

    Caring about conservation is not enough. We need to make it pay

    By John Kahekwa
    March 29, 2022
    Local groups know how to protect nature and support local communities, but they need help with realistic funding and commercial expertise. With climate change ...
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  • Fatou Bensouda, Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) gives a press briefing. Credit: UN Photo/Loey Felipe
    Congo-KinshasaSociety

    Is the International Criminal Court going after the wrong people?

    By Anushka Sehmi
    June 28, 2021
    Many of the ICC’s greatest triumphs have been in prosecuting war criminals in the eastern Congo. Yet relentless violence there continues. The eastern Democratic ...
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  • The UN peacekeeping force MONUSCO in Ituri province, eastern DRC. Credit: MONUSCO / Force.
    Congo-KinshasaKenyaRwandaUganda

    Can Kinshasa’s changing relations mark a new chapter for eastern DRC?

    By Stephanie Wolters
    June 8, 2021
    Since President Tshisekedi took office in 2019, the Congo’s relations with key neighbours have changed significantly. In the last few weeks, President Felix Tshisekedi ...
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