In times of conflict, women and girls face the greatest risks—violence, exploitation and limited access to essential care. This International Women’s Day, discover how the International Rescue ...

GOMA, Democratic Republic of the Congo, March 7 (UNHCR) - From Kinshasa to Kivu this Saturday, an electronic text message will urge men around the vast Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) to ...

The project aligns with the DRC’s National Strategic Development Plan (PNSD 2024–2028), which prioritizes job creation, ...

Editor's note: This story is part of Global Sisters Report's yearlong series "Out of the Shadows: Confronting Violence Against Women," which will focus on the ways Catholic sisters are responding to ...

Congolese authorities say 70 children died in a landslide at the Rubaya mine, source of much of the world’s coltan.

It is one of the most dangerous places in the world to be a woman – or a Christian. Disease is rampant, and children as young as 4 are being forced to work in mines. The Democratic Republic of Congo ...

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is supporting local authorities in the Republic of the Congo to provide humanitarian assistance to some 16,000 recently arrived refugees from the Democratic Republic of ...

President Kagame, who, like his DRC counterpart Tshisekedi, ducked the recent EAC Heads of State summit in Arusha, last ...