The Latest Breaking News from DRC

The Congolese authorities and civil society groups in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo have reported the discovery of mass graves in an area recently vacated by M23 rebels.

A key border post between the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Burundi has reopened after more than two months of closure following an offensive by AFC/M23 rebels. More than 10,000 people crossed on the first day alone, according to local authorities.

A minerals-for-security deal between the United States and the Democratic Republic of Congo is facing a constitutional challenge in Kinshasa, with critics warning the government may be underselling the country’s vast mineral wealth. The partnership was praised by US President Donald Trump during a visit to Washington last week by…

Editorial: A mining disaster in the Democratic Republic of Congo underscores the human cost of extraction. Intensified competition for resources isn’t helping

Thousands who fled the advance of M23 rebels now face the threat of disease and shortages in Burundi’s overcrowded refugee camps

Virunga park ranger says babies are well cared for by mother Mafuko but high infant mortality makes first weeks critical

Long criticised as overcrowded and filthy, the city’s Zando marketplace has had an elegant and sustainable redesign

On 8 January 1996, a Russian-built Antonov aircraft crashed into a market in Kinshasha city centre, killing at least 237 people in one of the worst tragedies in African aviation history. Thirty years on, the market is bustling once more, but the city has not forgotten the victims.

In this week’s newsletter: nature’s last stand against the DRC capital’s rampant development, plus looking back on last year’s stories of hope