Congo Resources

From Reuters : Logging must stop on nearly 13 million hectares of forest in Democratic Republic of Congo after a government review cancelled...

Secretary of State nominee Hillary Clinton is appearing at her confirmation hearing today. As is typical for these sessions, she's sayin...

A coalition of Congo-focused groups is sponsoring a rally for the Congo on Saturday Jan 17th, 2009 in front of the White House for an aftern...

So last week Nicholas Kristof of the NYT wrote an op-ed on military options for the new administration regarding Darfur. Numerous advocacy g...

Medecins sans frontieres, the French humanitarian NGO, issued its annual list of the top ten neglected humanitarian tragedies of the year, a...

Pressure is building on Britain to follow the lead of the Dutch and Swedish governments and end direct budget support to Rwanda. Richard Dow...

Thousands demonstrated in Kinshasa on Tuesday against rape as a weapon of war in eastern Congo. Eastern Congo, where brutal rape (the adject...

The IMF has slashed its projection for direct foreign investment in Congo for 2009 from $2.5bn to $800m. It also cut its 2009 growth foreca...

Ben Affleck has launched an emergency appeal for humanitarian relief in eastern DRC under the auspices of the UNHCR. Called Gimme Shelter, ...

Herman Cohen, a former assistant secretary of state for Africa under George Bush (41), proposes in today's New York Times that incoming...

The Central Bank announced on Friday that the DR Congo's economy shrunk by 2.7 percent from July thru October this year, and revised th...

New video on rape in eastern DRC posted on Youtube, from Journeyman TV. Click here .

From December 4, features Anthony Gambino, Suliman Baldo, and Severine Autesserre . For non-U.S. readers: Charlie Rose is the "high-bro...