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It’s really a frenzy.” Map of the DRC showing the provinces. Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. More than 80% of Tshopo’s population is engaged in subsistence farming.
A map by the World Health Organization (WHO) shows the provinces in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) where cases of mpox are on the rise as U.S. Centers of Disease Control and Prevention ...
The head of the UN Mission in Congo told the Security Council that M23 controls large parts of North Kivu and South Kivu “and threatens to expand into Tshopo and Maniema provinces,” which are ...
DRC launches its Carbon Map and Model Project, a €6-million programme designed to support forest monitoring initiatives and the reduction of emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD+) ...
A map showing the rainforest cover in DRC. Image from Molinario et al., 2017. By contrast, disruptions to the forest cover in the DRC show up in markedly different ways, Hansen said.
The M23 rebels "threaten to expand into Tshopo and Maniema provinces," said Bintou Keita, special representative of the United Nations secretary-general in the DRC, at the UN Security Council.
M23 rebels advance as DRC gov’t offers $5m reward to capture rebel leaders Rebel fighters eye strategic town of Walikale as government forces suffer defection amid ongoing fighting.
DRC seeks to lift ex-President Kabila’s immunity over alleged war crimes Joseph Kabila denies charges of treason and war crimes amid escalating tensions in volatile eastern provinces.
The establishment of new provinces is provided by the Constitution of 2005, but according to many observers, even if constitutional, this bill is inappropriate in a moment when the DRC must find more ...
The DRC national forest biomass map is a remarkable milestone in terms of a newly implemented method, and resulting accuracy. We believe that the map will bring significant added-value to the DRC’s ...
More than 1,200 civilians have been killed in the restive DR Congo provinces of Ituri and North Kivu so far this year and millions of people now need humanitarian aid in the eastern region, the UN ...