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The humanitarian situation in Congo has severely worsened, with the country facing Africa’s largest displacement crisis in 2017, famine expected to affect 7.7 million Congolese, and a national ...
The Republic of Congo’s post-conflict context is characterized by a gradual consolidation of peace as well as an increase in economic reconstruction and rebuilding activities. Although the ...
The Declaration of Principles comes less than a month after a peace agreement signed by Congo and Rwanda, long accused by the ...
The Enhancing Collection of Revenue and Expenditure Management (ENCORE) project has seen the setting up of a biometric civil ...
Today, the Council imposed restrictive measures against nine Congolese and Rwandan individuals responsible for acts that constitute serious human rights violations and abuses in the Democratic ...
And according to the National Commission on Human Rights in the Dominican Republic, more than 80 percent of prisoners are held under preventive detention orders.
Most of the world’s cobalt is extracted in the Democratic Republic of Congo. But to get it, hundreds of thousands of Congolese people labor with no other means to survive. On episode three of On ...
Community members use a water point in Bulengo displacement camp in Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo. Photograph: Cunningham/Getty Images The DRC, a central African country, has a population of ...
The Dominican Republic, already poised to deport hundreds of thousands of Haitian migrants who it claims are in the country illegally, could also end up shipping native-born Dominicans of Haitian ...
Co-Chairman McGovern, Co-Chairman Pitts, members of the Commission, thank you for the invitation to testify. This hearing comes at a critical moment in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Between 1998 and 2006 violence among armed groups in Northern Katanga in the Democratic Republic of the Congo triggered the displacement of some 180,000 persons across the province and into ...