Fighting in the DRC sparks a surge of sexual violence
UNICEF recorded nearly 600 cases of rape in the week following the fall of Goma, in the east of the country, at the end of January. All sides in the conflict are implicated in these crimes, from the ...
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Indigenous people cut down trees as solar energy remains inaccessible and costly in DRC
Mongabay visited villages off the power grid in the DRC’s Tanganyika province ... This accounts for 4.8% of the province’s total tree cover loss and 8% of its primary rainforest loss.
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The environmental toll of the M23 conflict in eastern DRC (Analysis)
By Fergus O’Leary SimpsonJoel MasselinkLara Collart The resurgence of the M23 (March 23 movement) rebel group has once again ...