5.4 million people have died in Democratic Republic of Congo since 1998 because of conflict, report says

The Conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo:

The purpose of this essay is twofold. First is to analyze the role of insurgent groups in the anti-Kabila civil war in the Congo within the statist approach, which endows the state with considerable autonomy in defining the nature of states’ preferences and developing solutions to them. The essay also contends that the statist approach is not sufficient, however. Once enmeshed in a stalemated w...

Democratic Republic of Congo

Programme outcome: The IFRC 2010 support strategy and plan for the Red Cross of the Democratic Republic of Congo (Red Cross of DRC) was based on the National Society’s (NS) 20092013 Strategic Development Plan and was designed to help the NS provide vulnerable communities with life-saving first aid, clean water and sanitation, health and hygiene promotion, HIV/AIDS support, sexual and gender bas...

Mortality in the Democratic Republic of Congo

No End in Sight: The human tragedy of the conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo

Implementing REDD+ in a Conflict-Affected Country: A Case Study of the Democratic Republic of Congo

Due to their carbon sequestration potential, tropical forests are a focal point for mitigation of climate change through Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD+). The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) contains the largest part of the Congo Basin, the second largest rainforest in the world, and has become a main focus for REDD+ initiatives. However, DRC’s ongoing ins...