In the coming weeks, the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) will likely pass a resolution renewing the mandate of MONUSCO, the UN peacekeeping mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC)…

The response of the United Nations (UN) to intercommunal and armed group violence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has long suffered from an overly securitized approach and the separation…

For decades, the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s eastern region has been subject to insecurity and violence stemming from a complex mix of local and regional conflicts. With violence once again inf…

While the COVID-19 pandemic continues to spread, a sliver of good news came out of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) on June 25, when the government officially declared an end to the country’s lo…

In October 2021, the March 23 movement (M23) rebooted its insurgent campaign in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), a country that for 30 years has cycled through iterations of con…

The April 19 murder of a World Health Organization (WHO) official in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has brought to center stage the issue of escalating violence against Ebola responders. T…

Last week, the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) reached a sobering milestone by becoming the second largest Ebola outbreak in history, second only to the 2014–16 epidemic in We…

This is a delicate year in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), with a general election scheduled for December, two years late, and a lot of unknowns about the resulting aftermath. While Joseph…

It has been nearly one month since the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) declared a new outbreak of the Ebola virus. As of June 2, the World Health Organization (WHO) reported 53 confirmed, proba…

On the last Sunday of May, President Joseph Kabila joined residents in the capital, Kinshasa, to register for the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s long-awaited general elections. In doing so, Kabila…