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DRC: In Lubumbashi, the rupture of a contaminated water retention basin...

This is the neighborhood most affected by the ongoing environmental and health catastrophe in Lubumbashi, in eastern DRC. In Kasapa, a leak...
https://fr.mongabay.com/2025/03/les-defenseurs-de-lenvironnement-et-des-droits-de-lhomme-prennent-la-fuite-et-se-refugient-alors-que-le-m23-sempare-des-villes-de-la-rdc/

Eastern DRC: Increase in violence and rights violations targeting environmental defenders...

The occupation by AFC/M23 rebels of several territories, including Goma and Bukavu, has complicated the lives of environmental defenders who had sought...
https://medd.gouv.cd/curriculum-vitae-de-madame-le-vice-premier-ministre-et-ministre-de-lenvironnement-et-developpement-durable-eve-bazaiba-masudi/

Alleged embezzlement of public funds involving DRC’s Minister of State for...

In an official statement signed by its communications advisor, Michel Koyakpa Zuakondiri, the Ministry strongly condemns these allegations, which it describes as...
https://www.rtbf.be/article/hausse-du-nombre-d-attaques-en-rdc-cette-annee-l-onu-inquiete-10722990

DRC: Feeling insecure, human rights defenders call for a review of...

Promulgated on June 15, 2023, the law relating to the protection and responsibility of the human rights defender in the Democratic Republic...
According to the commission of inquiry, to escape the law, certain Chinese companies operate under the cover of mining cooperatives bringing together Congolese artisanal diggers (Photo: artisanal miners looking for gold on a site in Walungu, South Kivu territory , near Bukavu (Credits: Reuters)

Illegal mineral exploitation in eastern DRC is one of the main...

The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, during the presentation of his report to the UN Human Rights Council, denounced the...
https://www.greenpeace.org/africa/fr/communiques-de-presse/2154/la-rdc-menace-douvrir-la-deuxieme-plus-grande-foret-tropicale-du-monde-a-de-nouveaux-exploitants-industriels/

DRC: Alert on the illegal export of sawn timber to Uganda

In the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), environmental civil society organizations denounce the fraudulent export of sawn timber...
https://www.radiookapi.net/2024/10/21/actualite/societe/felix-tshisekedi-labandon-du-regime-dinterdiction-de-circulation-des

DRC: President Tshisekedi and his family involved in mining in Lualaba...

Several mining companies operating in the Lualaba province in the DRC have been negatively cited in a Civil Society report that accused...
https://www.amnesty.org/fr/latest/news/2024/06/drc-president-tshisekedi-must-use-second-term-to-tackle-human-rights-crisis/

DRC: President Félix Tshisekedi must be held accountable for human rights...

At the start of his first term in 2019, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) President Félix Tshisekedi promised to protect human...