Resource bartering doesn't deliver stability - it perpetuates institutional fragility and rarely builds public trust and legitimacy in African governments. In March 2026, the United States (US) ...

Congolese President Félix Tshisekedi aims to leverage the ambitious Kivu-Kinshasa Green Corridor to transform a war economy into an economy of hope. The Kivu-Kinshasa Green Corridor—an idea first ...

The horizon is blue along the banks of the Congo River – but it is the blue of a wall. A painted sheet-metal barrier blocks the view for walkers who come to get some fresh air along Avenue des Nations ...

Kinshasa isn’t the kind of city that waits for you to be ready, the city just takes over your experience. It is a metropolis of staggering contradictions, where the ghosts of Belgian colonialism ...

Congolese security forces have been responsible for numerous enforced disappearances in and around Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo, since March 2025. The Congolese government ...

Long criticised as overcrowded and filthy, the city’s Zando marketplace has had an elegant and sustainable redesign Selling vegetables was Dieudonné Bakarani’s first job. He had a little stall at ...

In this week’s newsletter: nature’s last stand against the DRC capital’s rampant development, plus looking back on last year’s stories of hope Anyone who has ever seen a living baobab tree should find ...

In the Democratic Republic of Congo, M23 rebels have threatened to overthrow the government in Kinshasa. But experts say that the escalating war could be nothing more than a means of influencing peace ...

Faced with a lack of running water, unsanitary conditions and poverty, the Kinshasa neighborhood of Pakadjuma has struggled to end a cholera epidemic that has claimed hundreds of lives in the ...

On 23 April, delegations from Kinshasa and rebel group M23’s political affiliate, Alliance Fleuve Congo (AFC), declared their intent to work towards a ceasefire and continue discussions on the root ...

The April 2025 flooding disaster in Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo, wasn’t just about intense rainfall. It was a symptom of recent land use change which has occurred rapidly ...

Basic information and contact details for the University of Kinshasa Universite de Kinshasa is regarded as one of the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s three main universities. It was founded in its ...