UN Report Sheds Light on Rapes in Makala Prison During Deadly Jailbreak A September 9 internal report by the United Nations Population Fund, the UN agency tasked with improving reproductive and ...

Years of conflict in eastern Congo have created a dire mental health crisis GOMA, Congo -- For Nelly Shukuru, there was no way out. The fighting that forced her from her home, the squalid ...

Sexual violence is a chronic problem in Congo’s prisons. In September 2020, a prison riot at Kasapa Central Prison in Lubumbashi caused a fire in the women’s section that forced the female ...

Since its founding in 2015, the Lincoln-based One Thread Project has been dedicated to empowering women and children in Congo through education, entrepreneurship and vocational training.

A September 9 internal report by the United Nations Population Fund, the UN agency tasked with improving reproductive and maternal health, found that 268 out of the 348 women held in the Democratic ...

The economy of the Democratic Republic of the Congo - a nation endowed with vast natural resource wealth - continues to perform poorly. Systemic corruption since independence in 1960, combined ...

Jodhpur: A 51-year-old woman from Jodhpur died of Congo fever on Wednesday at an Ahmedabad hospital. The medical and health department in Rajasthan has issued necessary guidelines for the ...

Jaipur: A woman from Jodhpur died of Congo Fever in Ahmedabad where she was under treatment in a hospital. The health department team reached the woman's village and conducted a survey after the ...

In Goma, a town in the Democratic Republic of Congo, a woman-led recycling company is tackling plastic pollution, and creating jobs for some of the country’s millions of internally displaced people.