The European Union is sending millions of euros to a Belgian prince, who wants to protect wildlife and people in a nature reserve in the Democratic Republic of Congo. But local residents and experts F...

Join Utrecht University as a postdoc in the CLIMCON project and explore how armed groups shape the climate-conflict nexus in a dynamic, interdisciplinary team.

Regional and international initiatives to end the war between M23/AFC and the Congolese government are multiplying, leading to mounting pressure on the belligerents to negotiate through sanctions and ...

Eastern DR Congo has been mired in violence for over three decades. Despite the dire humanitarian consequences, this violence rarely makes it to the headlines.

Même si imputer la crise dans l’est du pays à une simple soif pour les ressources minières est séduisant, les médias internationaux, en se contentant de cette version incomplète, nourrissent un terrea...

False framings can exacerbate the problems they seek to tackle.

Een al lang sluimerend conflict haalde deze week de voorpagina’s, toen de Congolese rebellengroep M23 de stad Goma in Oost-Congo innam. Het is een dramatisch nieuw hoofdstuk in een regio die al lang o...

Several hundred well-paid foreign soldiers fighting on the side of the Congolese government surrender.

The militia seized the pivotal city of Goma, threatening a new humanitarian crisis in a region that has suffered decades of fighting.

Minerais de sang, mercenariat, revendications territoriales, intérêts économiques, guerres oubliées... Depuis trente ans, l’est de la République démocratique du Congo est un feu incandescent qui (…)

Le mouvement rebelle M23 soutenu par l’armée rwandaise est entré dans la ville d’un million d’habitants, sans parvenir pour l’heure à la contrôler totalement. Ni les forces internationales déployées …

Western countries let the African nation get away with fomenting conflict in its neighbour

At the World Economic Forum in Davos, the DRC President Felix Tshisekedi has announced the creation of one of the world’s largest protected areas, covering more than 540,000 km² – an area the size of ...

The Bukumu chiefdom is located in the Nyiragongo territory, named after its active volcano, in North Kivu province, Democratic Republic of Congo. This report examines Bukumu’s key social, political, g...

This interview with professor Al Gedicks discusses their research, highlighting connections between Latin America and Wisconsin, USA, anti-mining and Indigenous struggles.

Work in political ecology and related fields emphasizes the importance of subjectivities to understand power relations and dynamics in nature-society …

The Okapi Wildlife Reserve in northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) protects nearly 14,000 square kilometers (5,405 square miles) of tropical rainforest and is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. ...