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World Food Program, UNICEF and partners organize a cash transfer programme in the East of the Democratic Republic of Congo between 26 October and 15 November 2016. In an effort to strengthen their resilience, 12,800 displaced families received between 92 and 185 US$, depending on the number of people in the family, to provide in basic needs.

Current events in the elite politics of the DRC should be of great concern for those who follow developments in the country. Systematic efforts are being made by the Presidency and sections of the Presidential Majority to modify the 2006 constitution or, more likely, to have a new constitution passed by referendum. This would enable the incumbent President to abolish the current two-term limit to his presidential mandate. This new constitution would open the door for a lifetime presidency, leaving President Kabila in power until he dies or until he goes into exile. The extensive efforts made since 1998 to turn the bullet into the ballot risk being wasted. However, if concerted action is taken then the lifetime presidency can be prevented before it’s too late.

– By Solomon A. Dersso

Despite their legal attributes, in functional terms many African states (constructs of the continent’s encounter with colonial rule) came into being without possessing the requisite qualities of statehood. Apart from their alienation from the lived political and socio-cultural experiences of the masses of the people, they became states without the capacity to provide for the security and other basic needs of their people. To date, and despite the passage of half a century since the end of colonial rule, a significant number of these countries still suffer from the lack of the functional attributes of a state.

The United States will expand sanctions on groups in the Democratic
Republic of Congo, making it easier to target those who are trying to
instigate violence and disrupt peacekeeping efforts in that country,
the White House announced on Tuesday.

BY NICK LONG

The Democratic Republic Congo, faulted last year for murky reporting on its earnings from natural resources, has improved its accounting enough to be awarded full membership in an international organization touting transparency.

By Dr. Claude Kabemba | June 19th, 2014

he Southern Africa Resource Watch (SARW), together with Congolese Civil Society organisations working in the extractive industries undertook an investigation to ascertain the sincerity of capital investment declarations made by mining companies in the DRC. This investigation followed a similar one carried out by the auditors and consultants BDO-ECA (Binder Dijker Otte Et Co) on Tenke Fungurume Mining SARL (TFM) which is part of Freeport, and Kamoto Copper Company SARL (KCC), which is part of GlencoreXstrata in 2012.

Obama may be non-interventionist in the Middle East, but he’s acting increasingly like a neo-con in Africa.

Apparent Ethnic Attack Kills 30 Civilians

– By Manya Riche and Kris Berw

Joseph Kabila is believed to be undecided over whether he will try to stand for a third term in Congo’s 2016 election.

By J. Peter Pham, contributor

By every right, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) ought to be one of the richest countries in the world. The Belgian geologist René Jules Cornet, whose work in the 1890s uncovered the Congo's immense mineral reserves — currently valued by some estimates at more than $24 trillion and including 70 percent of the world's coltan, 30 percent of its diamond reserves, as well as vast amounts of cobalt, copper, gold and many other sought-after primary commodities — dubbed the territory a "veritable geological scandal." The real scandal, however, is that this treasure has yet to better the lives of the people of Africa's second-largest and fourth-most populous country. To the contrary, the most recent edition of the United Nations Development Program's Human Development Index ranked the lush, mineral-rich DRC at the absolute bottom of the 187 countries and territories included in the survey (tying landlocked, mostly desert Niger for last place), while the Fund for Peace's 2013 Failed States Index put the country in 177th place out of 178 countries (just a notch above long-collapsed Somalia).