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 ...

The leader of the rebels who captured two key cities in eastern Congo tells The Associated Press that international sanctions ...

A Zimbabwean mother, Getrude Mucheri, braved miles of rain-soaked roads to have her expired contraceptive implant removed and ...

Critical funding gaps are severely hampering humanitarian efforts in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and beyond, leaving thousands without life-saving aid and pushing an already dire ...

The mpox global health emergency is worsening as the fighting between the M23 rebel group and Congolese troops escalates in eastern Congo ... vaccines are running short as supplies can’t ...

It is not Rwanda's policies that unsettle Western powers, but Rwanda's defiance of a long-standing hierarchical relationship, where donors dictate terms and African nations comply. Rwanda is proving ...

The outlook is grim, and short of rapid intervention, the area threatens to tumble head first into wholesale humanitarian disaster. The Eastern Congo has ... Children and women are the most ...

March 9 - The United States is open to exploring critical minerals partnerships with Congo, the State Department ... but cancelled the meeting at short notice, according to two sources.

It is one of the most dangerous places in the world to be a woman – or a Christian ... The Democratic Republic of Congo is 95% Christian, yet the faithful are being targeted by jihadists.

M23 rebels seize Nyabiondo amid ongoing clashes Pro-government militia switches sides to join M23 alliance US says it is open to minerals partnership with Congo March 9 (Reuters) - Fighting ...

A mystery illness that has caused dozens of deaths in the Democratic Republic of Congo appears to from a "poisoning of a water source," according to the World Health Organization. The WHO's head ...

The CDC is 'monitoring' a mystery outbreak in the Congo that has killed people within 24 hours of symptoms appearing. A spokesperson for the agency said Monday: 'CDC is monitoring the situation ...