If the violence feared in the aftermath of the election does manifest, it will be because of Congolese society’s commitment to and defence of democracy, not in spite of it.
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Felix Tshisekedi may have clinched DRC’s presidency but the road ahead won’t be a smooth one.
The DRC could be the exception after a year in which opposition parties fared badly across East and Central Africa.
The recent poll in the DRC was messy. Nevertheless, it showed that significant change is underway in the country.
If DRC’s elections go ahead the climate isn’t conducive for a peaceful or free electoral journey.
Instability in the DRC and Ebola’s deadly properties is making it hard to contain the virus.
It could be a matter of days before the ebola epidemic in the DRC spreads to urban centres or spills over into neighbouring countries.
The UN Security Council’s response to the most recent Ebola outbreak has been weak. But what options does it have?
The awarding of the Nobel Prize for Peace to Denis Mukwege and Nadia Murad should strengthen efforts against the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war.
In the fight against cholera, new research in the DRC suggests that the rehabilitation of water networks would be more sustainable than other interventions whose effectiveness is debatable.
Male gorillas who spend more time with infants are expected to sire about 5 times more babies.
It’s been an eventful year for the Democratic Republic of Congo as the country prepares for elections.
The BBC drama about Rwanda tackles post-genocide events in a way few dramas or documentaries have done before.
There is an urgent need for a binding convention for the prohibition of violence against women.
We cannot end TB with century-old technologies and poor quality care. It is time to reinvent the way we are managing TB, and overcome our collective failures of the imagination.
Malaria can be transmitted from humans to gorillas, with devastating effects.
With the 2018 Nobel Peace Prize awarded to two leaders who fight against sexual violence as a tool of war, we looked into our archive to find stories about those efforts across the globe.
The Democratic Republic of the Congo has been hit with another Ebola outbreak. This may be the test case for how to deal with future outbreaks.
Women in the DRC are much more than victims of violence and coming together to effect change.
The DRC’s roads are a crucial space where conflict, illegal taxation, and conflict financing entangle.
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Lecturer in African History, Queen Mary University of London
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Professor in International Development, University of Antwerp
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Lecturer in International Development, University of Bath
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Professor in the faculty of Medicine, Mbarara University of Science and Technology
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Research Director of the Insecure Livelihoods Project, Ghent University
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Part-time lecturer at the Global Health & Social Medicine, Harvard University, and Lecturer at the School of Public Health, College of Health Sciences, University of Liberia
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Postdoctoral Research Associate, King's College London
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Assistant professor, University of Groningen
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Adjunct assistant professor, University of Copenhagen
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Visiting Researcher, University of Leeds
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Researcher and lecturer, City University of New York
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Senior researcher, Danish Institute for International Studies
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Professor of Democracy, University of Birmingham
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Lecturer and Senior Research Fellow at the South African Research Chair in International Law (SARCIL), University of Johannesburg
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Research Fellow at Institute for Democracy Citizenship and Public Policy in Africa, University of Cape Town
