List of Congo articles
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Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) President Joseph Kabila looks on at the 32nd summit of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) at Maputo's Joaquim Chissano Conference Centre on August 17, 2012 in Maputo. During their two day meeting the heads of the 15 nation bloc will turn their attention to conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo as well as the the border dispute between Malawi and Tanzania. A quarter of a million people have fled the eastern DRC since April when a rebel group calling itself the M23 took up arms against the government. AFP PHOTO / STEPHANE DE SAKUTIN (Photo credit should read STEPHANE DE SAKUTIN/AFP/GettyImages) A Constitutional Coup in Congo
After a pair of legal showdowns, President Joseph Kabila looks set to extend his term in office without holding an election.
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DR Congo's Leopards supporters wait to catch a glimpse of the soccer players after they returned to the county's capital Kinshasa following their win over Mali in the Champions of African Nations Championship (CHAN) final match, on February 8, 2016. DR Congo won the final match of the tournament against Mali by three goals to nil at Amahoro National Stadium in Kigali on February 7, 2016. / AFP / JUNIOR KANNAH (Photo credit should read JUNIOR KANNAH/AFP/Getty Images) Congo’s Soccer Players Get Cars. Its Rape Victims Get Nothing.
Ten years after it was ordered to make reparations to victims of mass rape, DRC’s government still hasn’t paid a cent.
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The wedding of Furaha Kirombozi, 25, and Theiry Kakule Mutsumde, 33, was attended hundreds of people, but the celebrations stopped at the sundown. As residents of Beni say, everybody sets a curfew for himself, but they all agree it's not safe to stay out after dark Love and War in Eastern Congo
A rebel advance means two sweethearts must delay their wedding. But when they finally tie the knot with friends and family, fear is banished for a day.
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GettyImages-495843176 crop Kabila Must Go
There are hints that the president of the DRC wants to delay presidential elections. Here’s why that would be a disaster.
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Congolese President Denis Sassou Nguessou casts his ballot on October 25, 2015 in Brazzaville. People in the Republic of Congo began voting in a referendum today on whether longtime President Denis Sassou Nguesso can seek a third term in office that has sparked clashes in the oil-producing country. AFP PHOTO (Photo credit should read -/AFP/Getty Images) Africa’s Softer, Gentler Coups d’Etat
Across the continent, military takeovers are out and nasty legal maneuvering is in.
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To go with Afghanistan unrest Taliban refugees,FOCUS by Anuj Chopra In this photograph taken on May 21, 2015, an Afghan woman with her children displaced by ongoing fighting against Taliban militants sit inside a tent at a makeshift camp in Kunduz, north of Kabul. Civilians are bearing the brunt of a large-scale insurgent offensive in Kunduz province, the keystone of the Taliban's summer fighting season which is expected to be the bloodiest in a decade. AFP PHOTO / SHAH Marai (Photo credit should read SHAH MARAI/AFP/Getty Images) Women, Peace, and Security in Afghanistan
It's been 15 years since the UN passed UNSCR 1325. How has Women, Peace, and Security policy changed in Afghanistan and the Congo since then?
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TO GO WITH AFP STORY BY Jean-Baptise BADERHA Congoles surgeon and gynaecologist Denis Mukege poses at Panzi Hospital, in the outskirts of Bukavu, on March 18, 2015. Dr Mukwege and his staff gained international recognition for their fight in treating and helping heal women raped in South and North Kivu. AFP PHOTO / MARC JOURDIER (Photo credit should read MARC JOURDIER/AFP/Getty Images) Congo’s Government Backtracks on Banning Explosive Documentary About Rape
A documentary about rape was banned last month in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. After international scrutiny, the Congolese reversed that ban this week.
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GettyImages-461881718_960 Trouble in Peaceland
By operating from a fortified bubble, dismissing local knowledge, and not speaking the language, peace missions are actually hindering the people they're trying to help.
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GettyImages-486204074boscocrop The Imperfect Trial of Congo’s ‘Terminator’
As Bosco Ntaganda faces charges of war crimes at the Hague, those watching from Congo debate what comes next for their country.
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DRCongo opposition supporters gather during a rally in Kinshasa on September 15, 2015. Violent clashes broke out Tuesday in Kinshasa when an opposition rally was attacked by unidentified youths hurling stones, sparking a lynching attempt and a police crackdown, said an AFP journalist at the scene. Up to 3,000 people had gathered in a southern area of the DR Congo capital to oppose any bid by President Joseph Kabila to seek a third term in elections due at the end of next year. AFP PHOTO / JUNIOR KANNAH (Photo credit should read JUNIOR KANNAH/AFP/Getty Images) Playing for Time and Ultimate Power in Kabila’s Congo
With elections coming soon, the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s two-term president is playing a dangerous game to win a third.
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Ten of thousands of Rwandan Hutu refugees carry their belongings as they flee towards the Tanzanian border from the refugee camps at Magara, near the northern Burundian town of Ngozi on March 31, 1995. A UN High commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) spokesman in Nairobi said there were some 55,000 refugees on the road in a column stretching for 20 km and announced that Tanzania had closed its border. (Photo credit should read ALEXANDER JOE/AFP/Getty Images) Can a New Tool Help the U.S. Say (and Mean) ‘Never Again’ for Genocide?
Data made available by the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum hopes to prevent genocide and other atrocities before they even begin.
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Congo Drones How a U.N. Drone Crashed in Congo and Was Promptly Forgotten
An FP special report from the front lines of the flailing U.N. effort to use drones to save lives in a war-ravaged stretch of eastern Africa.
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Congolese gynaecologist Denis Mukwege, laureate of the 2014 Sakharov Prize, addresses a press conference to present the documentary "The Man Who Mends Women - the Wrath of Hippocrates", in Brussels, March 25, 2015. The documentary, from co-authors Thierry Michel and Colette Braeckman, follows Mukwege's efforts to repair the physical and psychological injuries of rape victims, and denounces the routine use of sexual violence by armed forces and militia groups in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo against women. AFP PHOTO/Emmanuel Dunand (Photo credit should read EMMANUEL DUNAND/AFP/Getty Images) Documentary About Rape Banned in ‘Rape Capital of the World’
A documentary highlighting the work of a world-renowned Congolese gynecologist has been banned in DRC.
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kabila Joseph Kabila Forever
The dangers of an extended presidency in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
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