The Democratic Republic of Congo has extended by three months a ban on exports of cobalt intended to curb oversupply of the ...

The Global Peace Index ranks DRC and Sudan among the world’s five least peaceful ...

Heineken has lost operational control and withdrawn its staff from its facilities in conflict-affected areas of eastern ...

Fighting for control of the Democratic Republic of Congo's mineral wealth has killed millions. Trump wants to end it, and ...

President of the Democratic Republic of Congo Félix-Antoine Tshisekedi Tshilombo has announced the creation of the world’s largest tropical forest reserve. Speaking during the ongoing World Economic ...

With the successful launch of the new data portal—the National Summary Data Page (NSDP) — the Democratic Republic of Congo has implemented a key recommendation of the IMF’s Enhanced General Data ...

Introduction The 10th outbreak of Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) in 2018–2020 was the largest in DRC’s history ... However, the simulated outbreak size ...

Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo — Anthrax poisoning has killed ... According to the Virunga website, the park was home to the largest hippo population in the world in the 1970s, with about ...

A huge rainforest stretching across the heart of Africa is quietly performing a vital role in protecting the planet. Home to endangered species and ancient communities, it covers more land than ...

The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is one of the world’s most resource-rich countries, and in 2024, it attracted the largest volume of mineral exploration ... 2 Given that the DRC’s land mass ...

After a rapid advance saw Rwanda-backed M23 rebels seize the two largest cities in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, uncertainty now looms over ... be gaining an area several times its size.

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