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Topic: Democratic Republic of Congo

A stop sign outside the US Institute of Peace in Washington, DC, on March 18, 2025. Cost-slashers of US President Donald Trump seized control on March 17 of the institute, ousting the leader of the taxpayer-funded center for conflict resolution created by Congress in 1984. ((Photo by Roberto Schmidt/Getty Images))

USIP renamed for Trump amid dispute

Blaise Malley
A child with a Congolese flag in the Katanga village near Lubumbashi, during an official visit of the Belgian Royal couple to the Democratic Republic of Congo, Saturday 11 June 2022. (BENOIT DOPPAGNE/BELGA MAG/AFP via Getty Images)

143 deaths linked to illness in DRC

Nicole Karlis
53 individuals, including three U.S. citizens, stand trial in Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo on September 13, 2024 on charges of involvement in a coup attempt that was thwarted on May 19. (Photo by Makangara Ciribagula Justin/Anadolu via Getty Images)

3 Americans sentenced to death for coup

Griffin Eckstein
TOPSHOT - A picture taken on November 13, 2018, shows Tanzanian soldiers from the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO) patroling against Ugandan Allied Democratic Force (ADF) rebels in Beni. - The Beni area has for the last four years been under seige from the ADF, an Islamist armed group that has killed hundreds of people since 2014. (Photo by John WESSELS / AFP) (Photo credit should read JOHN WESSELS/AFP/Getty Images) (John Wessels/AFP/Getty Images)

The forgotten trauma of a forgotten war

Nick Turse - TomDispatch.com
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Robert Mugabe (AP/Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi)

End sanctions against Zimbabwe? Not yet

Jonathan Zimmerman
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Lindsay Abrams
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