| DRC: Displacement and discrimination – the lot of the Bambuti Pygmies |
 GOMA, 1 September 2010 (IRIN) - Conditions in Mugunga camp for displaced people on the outskirts of the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo city of Goma are tough, but tougher still are those endured by hundreds of people from the Bambuti Pygmy community living just outside the camp.
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| In Brief: Floods ravage DRC's Equateur area |
 KINSHASA, 18 August 2010 (IRIN) - About 3,000 people in northwest Democratic Republic of Congo’s Equateur province are still suffering the effects of a flood caused by torrential rains which began in late July.
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| DRC: Timeline on Lubanga’s ICC trial |
 KINSHASA, 16 August 2010 (IRIN) - The trial of Thomas Lubanga on war crimes charges that include the conscription of children, the first ever to be heard by the International Criminal Court, has been viewed as an important test of the international court’s credibility and effectiveness. Although the trial began in January 2009, Lubanga has been in ICC detention since March 2006. Beset by procedural hiccups, some observers fear the trial has gone on for too long. Others see the setbacks as a sign that justice is in fact being carried out in a court grappling with its first case.
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| DRC: International justice denied? |
GOMA, 12 August 2010 (IRIN) - On a typically busy morning in North Kivu’s capital city Goma, nobody at the bank paid much attention to Bosco Ntaganda and his bodyguards. It had been a hectic few days for the rebel commander-turned-army general, who had also attended meetings with the provincial governor and the Democratic Republic of Congo President Joseph Kabila.
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| Analysis: Rethinking sexual violence in DRC |
 KINSHASA, 6 August 2010 (IRIN) - A survey conducted by American scientists among the population of eastern Congo challenges the traditional image of sexual violence as perpetrated by men against women – but NGOs assisting rape survivors urge caution in interpreting the study’s gender findings.
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| DRC: Humans versus animals in a conflict zone |
 GOMA, 4 August 2010 (IRIN) - On a Friday in Goma central prison in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, 25 dirty, barefoot men accused of illegal fishing in Lake Edward are gathered before three judges, who come once a week to hear cases against those locked up in a building unrenovated since the Belgian colonial era.
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| Analysis: Unconditional money |
 JOHANNESBURG, 2 August 2010 (IRIN) - A World Bank study that put money in the hands of girls and their parents in Malawi's poor southern region has caused ripples across the debate on cash transfers in academic and aid communities.
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| How To: Protect your livelihood from wild animals |
 JOHANNESBURG, 22 July 2010 (IRIN) - People and wildlife have never been in greater competition for limited resources as human populations invade shrinking natural habitats in a fight for living space, food and water. In this vignette of a planet-wide battle, IRIN looks at how to keep elephants away from your crops and raiding monkeys out of your food stores.
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| Analysis: NGOs' to-do list for incoming UN relief coordinator |
 DAKAR, 20 July 2010 (IRIN) - IRIN consulted the heads of some of the largest NGO networks on what they thought should be the top priorities of the incoming UN Emergency Relief Coordinator (ERC) and Under-Secretary General for Humanitarian Affairs, Valerie Amos, who is expected to take up her role within two or three months.
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| DRC: Where schools have flapping plastic walls |
 KIWANJA, 19 July 2010 (IRIN) - It is a sunny day at the Mashango primary school in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s North Kivu Province. That is good news for teacher Dusaba Mbomoya who is holding a geography exam under a roof filled with holes in a classroom where flapping pieces of plastic do duty as walls. Even the blackboard has holes large enough for students to peer through.
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