STORY HIGHLIGHTS The Lisungi project has empowered refugee women in Congo by providing conditional cash transfers, training, and small business grants, enabling them to start agricultural cooperatives ...

Three new facilitators, all former African Heads of State – two of whom are women – were announced, on Monday, March 24, to work alongside former Nigerian and Kenyan presidents Olusegun Obasanjo and ...

At his bar in Bukavu - a city in eastern Congo overrun by Rwandan-backed rebels last month - Adolphe Amani dipped into his ...

The results were transformative. Women now pay only Sh5 for a 20-litre jerrican—a 90 per cent reduction that has changed both ...

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Prices for cobalt hydroxide — the main product exported from the Democratic Republic of Congo — have jumped 84% since the country imposed a four-month suspension on shipments in February to rein in a ...

Languages: English. You can get in touch with Alyce by emailing [email protected] A woman has shared the contrast between her first time flying business class and her fourth time, and her ...

Angola announced its plan to get DR Congo and the M23 militia leaders at ... Over the last 30 years, it has upped its percentage of women in parliament from 9.8 percent to 27.1 percent.

THE Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), a country already plagued ... have also escalated. Children and women are the most vulnerable to attack, where the women are sexually assaulted as a weapon ...

KIGALI - Rwandan truckers and exporters say they are paying a steep price for the conflict in the eastern region of neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo, having to deal with angry locals and ...

March 9 - The United States is open to exploring critical minerals partnerships with Congo, the State Department said in a statement to Reuters on Sunday, after a Congolese senator contacted U.S ...