Map of the DRC showing the provinces. Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. More than 80% of Tshopo’s population is engaged in subsistence farming.

Felix Tshisekedi, president of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), has declared a “state of siege” over the escalating violence in the eastern provinces of Ituri and North Kivu.

The most heavily impacted province in the DRC is Tshuapa, with more than 200 confirmed cases from January 1, 2023, to October 7, 2023, according to a map by the WHO.

Rwandan-backed rebels now control large parts of eastern Congo and threaten to expand their offensive west into two neighboring provinces, the top U.N. official in the conflict-torn country said ...

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 government of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has officially launched its Carbon Map and Model Project, a €6-million programme designed to support forest monitoring initiatives and the ...

The military governor of North Kivu province in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has died from injuries sustained during fighting on the front line, local authorities say, as M23 rebel ...

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 ...