#theguardian.com. × #Feb.16.2026 Floating cities of logs: can the ‘lungs of Africa’ survive its exploitation?. The Congo River basin is one of the planet’s most biodiverse ecosystems. But it is also home to a growing population and relentless trade in timber and charcoal
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#theguardian.com. × #Feb.08.2026 The Guardian view on the scramble for critical minerals: while powers vie for access, labourers die | Editorial. Editorial: A mining disaster in the Democratic Republic of Congo underscores the human cost of extraction. Intensified competition for resources isn’t helping
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#theguardian.com. × #Nov.18.2025 The Congo basin may be the world’s most important rainforest – why is it the least researched?. It is the second-largest tropical forest on Earth, and one of the most vital carbon sinks, but is losing out when it comes to climate policy and funding
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#theguardian.com. × #Nov.11.2025 Violent reprisals after DRC whistleblowers discover profiteering in protected land. Environmentalists seeking to end logging, smuggling and pollution in DRC’s Mangrove Marine park faced threats, violence and rape
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#theguardian.com. × #Nov.10.2025 Waiting for the all-clear: how medics and villagers rallied when Ebola returned to DRC. If no new cases are reported in Bulape by early December, the country will have vanquished its 16th outbreak of the deadly virus since it was discovered there in 1976
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#theguardian.com. × #Mar.19.2025 Troubled waters: life on the edge of Africa’s Lake Kivu – in pictures. Lying between Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Lake Kivu is a silent witness to more than 30 years of conflict between the two countries. The lake, in a region seismically unstable and
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#theguardian.com. × #Mar.10.2025 US added to international watchlist for rapid decline in civic freedoms. Civicus, an international non-profit, puts country alongside Democratic Republic of Congo, Italy, Pakistan and Serbia
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#theguardian.com. × #Mar.07.2025 The secret life of the Congo rainforest – in pictures. Using high-definition camera traps on trails in Congo’s Nouabalé-Ndoki national park, Will Burrard-Lucas, a photographer for the Wildlife Conservation Society, has captured Africa’s most elusive and ra
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#theguardian.com. × #Mar.02.2025 Bukavu hospital patients tell of being shot in chaos of Congolese withdrawal. Widespread shooting and looting preceded arrival of M23 rebels, overwhelming city’s poorly resourced facilities
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#theguardian.com. × #Feb.21.2025 Mass burials and market looting in eastern DRC – in pictures. M23 rebels have made gains in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, seizing the cities of Goma and Bukavu, stoking fears of a regional conflagration
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#theguardian.com. × #Feb.17.2025 Rwanda-backed M23 rebels capture eastern DRC’s second-largest city. Congolese authorities accused of abandoning Bukavu after government confirms fall to militia group
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#theguardian.com. × #Feb.14.2025 Rwandan-backed M23 rebels seize key DRC airport in rapid southern advance. Humanitarian fears mount as airport is last obstacle before city of Bukavu and its population of about 1m people
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#theguardian.com. × #Feb.10.2025 Monday briefing: Why the brutal fighting in the Democratic Republic of Congo could spiral into wider war. In today’s newsletter: As Rwandan-backed M23 rebels seize more territory and the humanitarian crisis worsens, what’s the background to the war and prospect of peace?
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#theguardian.com. × #Feb.08.2025 Rwandan and Congolese leaders join summit on eastern DRC conflict. Leaders from across Africa call for immediate ceasefire at cross-party summit in Tanzania
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#theguardian.com. × #Feb.07.2025 Rwandan troops ‘dying in large numbers in DRC’, despite official denials of role. Exclusive: Sources say thousands of RDF killed supporting M23 rebels in eastern Congo, intensifying pressure on Kigali
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#theguardian.com. × #Feb.07.2025 The fall of Goma: 16 days of chaos and fear – in pictures. Congolese photographer Arlette Bashizi documented for Reuters the lead-up to and aftermath of the seizure of her home city by Rwandan-backed M23 rebels
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#theguardian.com. × #Feb.05.2025 Rwandan-backed rebels M23 launch new offensive in DRC. Clashes break out days before Rwandan and Congolese presidents attend crisis summit
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#theguardian.com. × #Feb.05.2025 Hundreds of women raped and burned to death after Goma prison set on fire. Atrocity follows escape of thousands of male inmates amid chaos as Rwandan-backed M23 rebels seize eastern DRC city
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#theguardian.com. × #Feb.04.2025 Rwandan-backed rebel group M23 declares unilateral ceasefire in DRC. Announcement came after UN health agency said at least 900 people were killed in fighting between the rebels and DR Congo forces in eastern city of Goma
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#theguardian.com. × #Jan.31.2025 ‘I curse this war’: hunger and fear in Goma after rebel takeover. M23 rebel group swept into Congolese city after a rapid advance in recent weeks
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#theguardian.com. × #Jan.30.2025 DRC leader calls for military recruits as Rwandan-backed rebels advance. President Tshisekedi vows ‘a vigorous and coordinated response’ to the M23 group
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#theguardian.com. × #Jan.29.2025 The Guardian view on conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo: a disaster with many makers. Western resource-hunger has fuelled a vast humanitarian crisis. Donors must now press Rwanda to pull back from this war
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#theguardian.com. × #Jan.28.2025 Fighting between DRC army and M23 rebels rages in eastern city of Goma. Residents in North Kivu report continuing clashes as large crowds of protesters take to streets in Kinshasa
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#theguardian.com. × #Jan.27.2025 Democratic Republic of the Congo: M23 rebels claim control of Goma – video report. Fighters enter city on border with Rwanda after lightning advance, raising risk of broader regional war
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