Managing Spoilers in a Hybrid War: The Democratic Republic of Congo (1996–2010)

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...

Rape as a weapon of war in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

The Democratic Republic of the Congo has been appropriately acknowledged as "the rape capital of the world." While the country has been trapped in conflict, the use of rape as a weapon of war has been rampant and unyielding. The sexual violence inflicted upon women has been nothing less than brutal and destructive, physically, socially, and psychologically. This paper analyzes the use of rape a...

Mortality in the Democratic Republic of Congo

Onchocerciasis control in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC): challenges in a post-war environment.

OBJECTIVE To evaluate onchocerciasis control activities in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) in the first 12 years of community-directed treatment with ivermectin (CDTI). METHODS Data from the National Programme for Onchocerciasis (NPO) provided by the National Onchocerciasis Task Force (NOTF) through the annual reports of the 21 CDTI projects for the years 2001-2012 were reviewed retros...

The impact of war on forest areas in the Democratic Republic of Congo

This paper provides a review of data on the improves. War seems beneficial to the environment only if it keeps people out of large areas. It could be useful to eCects of the civil war on forest areas in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Only a few of these eCects were extend the concept of peace parks to war zones. The idea of an international ‘green force’ to protect biodiversity beneficial, t...