Armed violence displaces thousands as cholera outbreak worsens in DRC 

Children play football in an empty classroom at the UNICEF-supported Bulengo Primary School in the Bulengo displacement site, near Goma, North Kivu province in DR Congo. © UNICEF/Jospin Benek Ongoing violence in... Read more »

First meeting of the Bureau of the Assembly of the African Union on the Eastern DRC situation

In line with the African Union’s mandate to promote peace, security and stability on the continent, the Bureau of the Assembly of the African Union held its First virtual Meeting on 5th... Read more »

Conflit en RDC : une délégation de l’AFC-M23 au Qatar pour des pourparlers de paix

  L’émir du Qatar Tamim Ben Hamad Al Thani Une délégation de l’Alliance Fleuve Congo, qui comprend le Mouvement du 23 mars (AFC-M23), est arrivée à Doha, capitale du Qatar, pour des pourparlers... Read more »

Rwanda Foreign Minister to address UN Security Council on the situation in DRC

Minister of Foreign Affairs Olivier Nduhungirehe is currently in New York, where he will address the UN Security Council today at 4:00 PM, Kigali time.  The meeting will be briefed on the... Read more »

Qatar welcomes statements from DRC and Rwanda on de-escalation of situations in Eastern Congo

The State of Qatar welcomes the statements issued by the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the Republic of Rwanda on their commitment for de-escalation and reducing tensions in the eastern region... Read more »

African Union welcomes the Doha meeting between the leaders of the DRC and Rwanda

The Chairperson of the African Union Commission (AUC), Mahamoud Ali Youssouf welcomes the outcomes of the trilateral meeting hosted by the State of Qatar on 18 March 2025 in Doha, bringing together... Read more »

The roads, testimony to the bankruptcy of the Congolese state and the ‘Kabila’ ghost city and power line

By Alain DESTEXHE* What have successive presidents – Mobutu, Kabila father and son, Tshisekedi – brought to the Congolese people? Nothing, apart from the misery of the people and the depletion of... Read more »

Thousands of families displaced by fighting in DR Congo’s South Kivu as UNICEF scales up humanitarian response

The resurgence of conflict in the province of South Kivu, in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), has forced more than 850,000 people—nearly half of them children—to flee their homes.... Read more »

La violence dans l’est de la RDC complique les efforts de réponse au mpox sur le terrain

Un jeune patient reçoit un traitement du mpox par l’UNICEF à l’hôpital de Kavumu, dans la province du Sud-Kivu, en RDC. © UNICEF/Mirindi Johnson Alors que le conflit entre le groupe rebelle... Read more »

Rwanda, Belgium discussed bilateral relations and situation in DRC

Minister Olivier Nduhungirehe met with Kathleen Depoorter In Brussels, Minister of Foreign Affairs Olivier Nduhungirehe met with Kathleen Depoorter, Vice President of the Commission on External Relations of Belgian Federal Parliament. “They... Read more »