DRC

UN/Loey Felipe

Respect for fundamental rights and freedoms key for peaceful polls in DRC – UN mission chief

27 August 2018
Peace and Security

Confidence and consensus around key issues are still required ahead of this year’s presidential and legislative elections in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the Security Council heard on Monday.

UNEP/GRID-Arendal/Tim Freccia

UNESCO condemns killing of rangers protecting mountain gorillas at renowned DR Congo wildlife park

11 April 2018
Law and Crime Prevention

The lives of six guards and their driver were taken Monday during an attack on the Congolese Institute for Nature Conservation in the Virunga Park, a United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) World Heritage site in the Democratic Republic of the Congo – drawing condemnation from the UN agency.    

UNHCR/Michele Sibiloni

UN refugee agency scaling up support as ‘horrific’ violence in DR Congo drives thousands into Uganda

16 March 2018
Humanitarian Aid

In the span of just three days – between 10 and 13 March – more than 4,000 people, mostly terrified women and children, have crossed into Uganda from crisis-gripped eastern provinces in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the United Nations refugee agency said Friday.

OCHA/Eve Sabbagh

UN aid chief urges international support to tackle ‘spiralling humanitarian needs’ in DR Congo

14 March 2018
Humanitarian Aid

As fighting in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has forced 4.5 million people to flee their homes over the past year and left more than 13 million in need of humanitarian assistance, the United Nations Emergency Relief Coordinator has called on the international community to urgently address the crisis.

OCHA/Ivo Brandau

DR Congo: UN warns of spike in displacement amid funding shortfall

9 March 2018
Migrants and Refugees

The United Nations migration agency is hoping that the upcoming donor pledging conference for the humanitarian crisis in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) will generate more financial support to cope with a spike in the number of people displaced by violence.

UNHCR/Rui Padilha

DR Congo: Flaring tensions could ‘plunge Kasai region into new violence,’ UN warns

6 March 2018
Peace and Security

The United Nations refugee agency warned Tuesday that ongoing instability in the Kasai region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) poses a grave risk to civilian safety, including for several hundred refugees recently returned there from Angola.

UNHCR/John Wesseles

DR Congo: Hunger crisis, scarce funds could push Kasais to brink of catastrophe, UN agency warns

7 December 2017
An acute hunger emergency ravaging Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC)’s strife-torn Greater Kasai region could transform into a long-term disaster if additional resources are not made available urgently, the United Nations food relief agency warned Thursday.
MONUSCO/Myriam Asmani

DR Congo: UN envoy expresses 'serious concern' over rising political tensions

23 April 2016
The head of the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO) has expressed serious concern about rising political tensions in some parts of the country.
UNICEF/HQ03-0555/LeMoyne

DR Congo: UN official applauds sentencing of militia leader for war crimes

9 November 2014
The head of the United Nations peacekeeping mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) – also known by its French acronym MONUSCO – has welcomed the sentencing of a former commander of a militia group accused of war crimes as a step towards reinforcing the rule of law in the war-torn African nation.

UNICEF/HQ03-0555/LeMoyne

Back from DR Congo, senior UN official urges more focus on protection of children

26 November 2013
Former child soldiers and girls used as sex slaves in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) desperately wish to be reunited with their communities – to return to school or get jobs ¬ a United Nations envoy said today, urging authorities to seize every opportunity to better protect children affected by conflict-related violence.