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KINSHASA – As conflict and the coronavirus escalate in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), aggravating one of the world’s biggest but most under-funded hunger crises, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) today warned that millions of lives could be lost unless the international community steps up with more help. The tourists and driver were later freed.Between December 2017 and March 2018, violence intensified in parts of northeastern Congo’s Ituri province, where armed groups launched deadly attacks on villages, killing scores of civilians, raping or mutilating many others, torching hundreds of homes, and displacing an estimated 350,000 people.Also in northeastern Congo, the Ugandan-led Lord’s Resistance Army continued to kidnap large groups of people and commit other serious abuses.In December, large-scale ethnic violence broke out in Yumbi, in western Congo’s Mai-Ndombe province, leaving reportedly hundreds dead in a previously peaceful region. In the first half of 2019, about 732,000 new displacements were recorded, 718,000 associated with conflict and 14,000 associated with disasters, posing additional challenges for … A team of experts mandated by the United Nations secretary-general to support the Congolese investigation had not been granted the access or cooperation needed to effectively support a credible and independent investigation. In a surprise radio announcement, Kabila had cut his cord to Rwanda, and Rwanda responded by invading a week later on August 2, 1998. Supporters of Martin Fayulu, the runner up in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s elections, hold up a coffin with “Good Bye Felix” as they protest in the street in Kinshasa against the decision of Felix Tshisekedi as president on January 21, 2019. Congolese Leader Long Overstays His WelcomeThey're Killing Babies and Torching Villages: Who Is Behind The Democratic Republic of Congo's Ugly New WarTrench War: The Factions That Make Up DR Congo’s Fragmented LandscapeSuspected Cases of Ebola Rise to 29 in Democratic Republic of Congo"500 People Killed" in DR Congo's Kasai in Five MonthsDR Congo's Kasai Conflict: Voodoo Rebels Take on KabilaJason Stearns, Koen Vlassenroot, Kasper Hoffmann, and Tatiana CarayannisFrom Mandate to Mission: Mitigating Civilian Harm in UN Peacekeeping Operations in the DRCCongo A 'Powder Keg' As Security Forces Crack Down On Whistling DemonstratorsA Nuanced but Firm Political Approach for DR Congo’s Decisive AutumnA Looming Calamity in the Democratic Republic of CongoCongo’s President Is Preparing for War Against His Own PeopleThe U.N. Is Caught in a Trap as Kabila Angles for Third Term in DRCThe Truth About United States’ Complicity in DRC’s Fraudulent ElectionAfrican Leaders Must Act to Stop Electoral Fraud in CongoKabila Will Not Stand in Elections, but Will Congo Really Change?Enhancing U.S. Support for Peace Operations in AfricaU.S. The agreement called for presidential elections by the end of 2017 and confidence-building measures, including releasing political prisoners, to ease political tensions. But the Second Congo War merely entered a stalemate between countries that soon led to profiteering as the war entered its next phase. Please check the captcha. DR Congo. Congolese soldiers from the Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of Congo (FARDC) rest in the forest after the army took control of an Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) rebel camp near the town of Kimbau, North Kivu Province, Democratic Republic of Congo on February 18, 2018. Human Rights Watch research implicates government officials in the murders.A UN Human Rights Council-mandated investigation into the broader, large-scale violence in the Kasai region since 2016 found that Congolese security forces and militia committed atrocities amounting to war crimes and crimes against humanity. Rather they armed, supported, and advised a rebel group comprised mainly of Congolese Tutsis, the Interpreting witness tampering as a form of corruption prohibited by the Congolese electoral law for presidential candidates, Congo’s electoral commission later invalidated Bemba’s presidential candidacy in what appears to be a politically motivated decision.Sylvestre Mudacumura, military commander of the FDLR armed group, remained at large.