Dem Rep Congo, Africa

The ICRC has begun a distribution of essential items – clothing, blankets, mats, soap and kitchen sets – to over 500 displaced families who have...

Renegade Congolese Gen Laurent Nkunda, whose forces are battling government troops in eastern DRC’s North Kivu Province, has declared a unilateral...

Two major water-supply projects have recently been completed with ICRC assistance in Goma and Bukavu, the largest cities in the eastern part of the...

Insurgents loyal to dissident general Laurent Nkunda, fighting government troops in North Kivu, eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), are...

Health authorities in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have closed the lake and land border with Uganda and shut down two markets as a...

Troops loyal to dissident general Laurent Nkunda in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have regained control of the town of Mushake in the...

Government forces in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) claimed to have routed fighters loyal to dissident General Laurent Nkunda from the North...

The UN World Food Programme (WFP) has suspended the delivery of food aid to as many as 300,000 vulnerable people because of renewed fighting in...

Concern is growing over the fate of an estimated 30,000–40,000 internally displaced people (IDPs) in Nyanzale in North Kivu, eastern Democratic...

The DRC government has ordered residents of Likasi, a large town in the mineral-rich Katanga province, to stay away from their local river, the...