In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, a woman-run recycling company in the town of Goma combats plastic pollution and providing work for some of the millions of internally displaced people of the country.
Zénon Mukongo Ngay, Permanent Representative of the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the United Nations, addresses the UN Security Council meeting on the situation concerning the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Goma, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, has been hosting displaced Saké and nearby people. In several camps near Goma, almost 60,000 displaced persons have joined thousands of others.Reporter Zanem Zaidi has the story on how a group of young volunteers is helping the thousands of recently displaced children with song and dance to cope with their trauma.
About two years after being displaced from their homes in the Democratic Republic of the Congo by a volcanic eruption, thousands of people are still living in camps.
Engendered mountain gorillas in the region are at risk due to hostilities between Rwanda and Democratic Republic of Congo. Despite the strain, communities on both sides of the border have come together to improve gorilla conservation.
Only 1,000 mountain gorillas left in the wild, and they are only live in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, and Uganda. Rwanda has turned to social media platform Instagram with an initiative they call GorillaGram to encourage tourists and locals to help the protection of the endangered gorillas.
According to the UN refugees agency, more than 160,000 people have been displaced as a result of clashes between the army of the DemocrAccordingatic Republic of the Congo and the rebel group M23 this year
United Nations Security Council meeting on the matter concerning the Democratic Republic of the Congo is presided over by Albana Dautllari, the Deputy Permanent Representative of the Republic of Albania to the UN and President of the Security Council for the month of June
Thousands of people who fled to Uganda have decided to return, despite sporadic violence in parts of eastern DR Congo. Others have chosen to stay because they are uncertain about the future.Armed groups and the Congolese armed forces clashed in early November, prompting asylum seekers to escape to Uganda
The lives and futures of more than three million displaced children are at risk in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) while the world is looking the other way, according to a report released today by the UN Children’s Fund