The human rights situation across the Democratic Republic of Congo remains dire, with internal conflicts and poor governance contributing to a severe food crisis and the internal displacement of 5 ...

SUKHUMI. Nov 7 (Interfax) - Abkhazia is holding negotiations with Russia on laying a gas pipeline to the republic for the construction of new power plants that would eliminate the energy shortages ...

The Dominican Republic announced this week that it had repatriated or deported almost 11,000 Haitians as a part of a new large-scale plan to curb Haitian migration to the country. The mass ...

It was officially adopted with the establishment of the government of the Republic of Korea in 1948. Korea is a democratic republic with a political system consisting of three distinct and independent ...

The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is one of the worst conflict-affected countries to be a child. Today, the number of people in the DRC facing extreme hunger is among the highest in the world.

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The economic growth of the Dominican Republic has tripled the regional average over the past two decades, resulting in 2.8 million people rising out of poverty, a middle class that now surpasses the ...

The head of Russia’s republic of Komi announced Tuesday that he was stepping down from office, making him the third regional ...

A general election in the Republic of Ireland has officially been called for Friday 29 November. A vet in Dublin has saved the life of a "starving" goldfish after carrying out a rare operation to ...

Gavin Cummiskey’s report from Athens is in. “It is now beyond reasonable doubt that Greece are better at football than the Republic of Ireland,” he writes from the Karaiskakis Stadium.

The DRC is home to over 529,000 refugees and asylum-seekers who have fled violence in neighbouring countries, mainly the Central African Republic, Rwanda, Burundi and South Sudan. The majority (72%) ...

In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, as elsewhere in the world, the ICRC works according to its principles of neutrality, impartiality, and independence. Its role is to protect the lives and ...