War is lead cause behind huge drop in global vaccinations, UN warns
Vaccine misinformation has added to crisis of collapsed healthcare and poor nutrition, Unicef and WHO report
Belgium museum wrestles with colonial past, with 40,000 objects tainted with violence
Brussels’ AfricaMuseum, founded to glorify a brutal project, faces demands for restitution of exquisite treasures stolen from Belgian Congo
How a brother’s illness spurred a plan to get mental health on the agenda across Africa
One of the continent’s leading medics, Jean Kaseya, has made it his mission to help the 116m people in African countries with mental health conditions
June 2024
‘Nowhere to go’: people trapped in eastern DRC as rebel militia seize key town
Rwandan-backed rebels seize Kanyabayonga, says official, already home to thousands driven from their homes by conflict
Goma games: how chess offers DRC’s displaced children respite from conflict – in pictures
Chess players from Goma in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo are introducing children traumatised by violence to the joys of playing the board game
Warnings over lethal and contagious strain of mpox as children in DRC die
How two Utah school friends ended up facing death penalty in Congo
US citizens face charges ‘punishable by death’ in alleged coup attempt in Congo
May 2024
DRC army says it stopped attempted coup involving three US citizens
‘Bullet wounds are common’: crime rife in DRC’s rebel-besieged city of Goma
Global violence causing record numbers of internally displaced people
Bomb attacks in Congo kill at least 12 people including children
April 2024
The ‘man who repairs women’ on rape as a weapon and how the world forgot the DRC
For the Nobel laureate Denis Mukwege, who has treated more than 80,000 survivors of sexual violence by armed groups, the west displays double standards over the ‘stain on our humanity’
Omen (Augure) review – Baloji offers secrets and sorcery in Congolese homecoming
Musician and film-maker Baloji’s complex story about a Belgian-Congolese man who brings his white wife home to DRC to meet the family is bold and tonally elusive
Opinion
Rwanda-backed rebels are choking the Congolese people, yet this is one conflict the world can easily end
Vava Tampa
Kagame’s regime is funding rape, killings and torture by the M23 militia, who have now cut off the city of Goma. But he can be stopped
March 2024
Rights and freedom
‘Staggering’ rise in women with reproductive health issues near DRC cobalt mines – study
Investigation reveals reports of miscarriages, infections and birth defects among women and girls in mining communities
Downstream to Kinshasa review – war survivors set sail on mission for reparations
Dieudo Hamadi’s documentary is a clear-eyed look at the brutal aftermath of the DRC’s ‘six-day war’ as disabled victims journey to the capital to present their demands to the government
Fair Access
Cholera now threatens 1bn people. It’s time to finish what we began in the 19th century
Hakainde Hichilema and Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus
With the disease raging in 23 countries and no vaccine stocks, Zambia and the WHO propose a way to stop the deaths
February 2024
African leaders call for equity over minerals used for clean energy
‘I feel my heart breaking into a thousand pieces’: Goma fills with refugees trying to flee fighting in DRC
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