CIVICUS speaks with Claude Iguma, a mining governance expert with a PhD in Social Sciences, who is based in Bukavu, South Kivu province, eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).

Conflict analysts have suggested that Islamic state militants in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) have been able to operate with increasing impunity due to the conflict with the allegedly ...

A United Nations report says Rwanda provided critical support to the M23 rebels who seized key cities earlier this year in ...

Rwandan President Paul Kagame said on Friday he was unsure whether a U.S.-brokered peace deal would hold with Democratic ...

The Minister of State for Interior AffairsHE Sheikh Abdulaziz bin Faisal bin Mohammed Al Thani met separately with the Minister of ...

The Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda have agreed to bring an end to conflict in eastern Congo, where millions of ...

Mineral smuggling from eastern Democratic Republic of Congo into neighbouring Rwanda has reached “unprecedented levels” amid ...

The deal, which is driven by Congo’s tourism ministry, may seem unusual. Congo’s annual GDP per person is less than $650.

A CONFIDENTIAL United Nations report has identified Rwanda’s Boss Mining Solution as complicit in purchasing minerals ...

The remains of a Congolese customs worker who was killed for resisting a bribe and beatified by the Vatican have been ...

Pope Francis recognized Floribert Bwana Kositi, a customs officer killed in 2007 for refusing a bribe, as a martyr of the ...

The DRC and Rwanda have signed a new deal to repatriate refugees, but violence and mistrust still threaten any lasting ...