Timeline:DR Congo

Dated events for DR Congo, generated from the archive. Each line is one headline as it was recorded.

2026-08-24

• Ceasefire monitoring mission arrives in Democratic Republic of Congo - aljazeera
• Nearly one in two Ebola patients dying in DR Congo outbreak - aljazeera

2026-08-21

• DR Congo Ebola outbreak spreading exponentially, UN responders warn - unnews

2026-07-17

• The Truth About Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya - The Times of Israel

2026-07-01

• Israel-Lebanon Deal: A Path to Peace or Another Ceasefire Illusion? - TV7 Israel News

2026-06-08

• Show Us the Money - Foreign Policy

2026-05-27

• Is Accountability in Syria Possible? - Pulitzer Center

2026-05-15

• Nicholas Kristof and Death By a Thousand Cuts - The Free Press

2026-05-13

• Who Were Kristof’s Sources? - The Media Line

2026-05-07

• The Final Lebanon War? - David Daoud, Jonathan Schanzer - The Dispatch

2026-05-01

• Recalling Damascus on the Hudson - The Broadsheet

2026-04-27

• The Art of the Nuclear Deal - The New York Times

2026-04-26

• Damascus, Scatter Brain, and New Faces - The Trek

2026-04-25

• Tracking Chinese and Russian Statements on the Iran War - The Washington Institute

2026-04-06

• New Airstrikes Batter Tehran - The New York Times

2026-04-01

• Smirking Past the Gallows - The Atlantic
• The Houthis Join the War - The Washington Institute

2026-03-30

• At Synagogues, Tensions Are Boiling Over - The New Yorker

2026-03-25

• The Choking of Hormuz - The New York Times

2026-03-19

• The Stunning Failure of Iranian Deterrence - Foreign Affairs

2026-03-08

• Iran’s Risky Gamble - Quillette

2026-03-05

• Whither Palestine and the Palestinians? - Arab Center Washington DC

2026-02-28

• Iran After the Ayatollah - Christianity Today

2026-02-27

• Shipping Tribune - shippingtribune.com

2026-02-11

• Syria’s Future Between Fragmentation and Rival Reconstruction - Manara Magazine

2026-02-10

• Cutting Through the Fog of War (and Peace) in Syria - The Washington Institute

2026-02-09

• The Gap between Perception and Reality - The Times of Israel

2026-01-19

• How Turkey and Damascus Engineered a Kurdish Defeat - Modern Diplomacy

2025-12-29

• Freed Hostages Matan Zangauker and Ilana Gritzewsky Celebrate Engagement - Haaretz
• The Strange Fear of Russia - Geopolitical Futures

2025-12-23

• A Real Negotiation Process - RAND

2025-12-07

• The Road to Damascus - Al Jazeera

2025-11-19

• Organization of Defensive Innovation and Research (SPND) - Iran Watch

2025-11-06

• Kurds Could Hold Syria Together or Pull It Apart - New Lines Magazine

2025-11-03

• Iran Policy Memo: What Comes Next? - J Street

2025-10-28

• How Israel is winning the wars and losing the peace - NPR

2025-10-27

• Sink Iran’s Navy - Middle East Forum

2025-10-26

• Javad Naeimi: Mossad Spy or a Victim? - WANA News Agency

2025-10-15

• Gaza Ceasefire Tested, Shutdown Stalemate, SCOTUS Voting Rights - NPR

2025-10-13

• Poor Syria - Arab American Institute

2025-10-09

• Cruise Missiles Are the Present and Future of Warfare - RAND

2025-10-03

• USS Gerald R. Ford Now in the Mediterranean Sea - USNI News

2025-10-01

• Focus on the Druze - Jewish Policy Center
• Gas and Geopolitics in the Eastern Mediterranean - Arab Center Washington DC
• The Return of Syrian Horse Racing - New Lines Magazine

2025-09-29

• Close to The Edge - Nowlebanon

2025-09-24

• Returning to Yarmouk - Jewish Currents

2025-09-17

• Ecocide, Imperialism and Palestine Liberation - Transnational Institute
• History of the Kaaba - TRT World

2025-09-15

• 'The Face of Old Gaza': IDF Struck Down Landmark Residential High-rise in Gaza City - Haaretz

2025-09-12

• Survival Over Defection - persuasion.community - gnews

2025-09-05

• Discontent Amid Despair - Riddle Russia

2025-09-04

• Disarmament or Diversion? Berri’s Maneuver and Hezbollah’s Outsourcing - Nowlebanon

2025-09-03

• Busiest Ocean Trade Route - Marine Insight

2025-09-02

• Pedaling Through the Fault Lines of Postwar Damascus - New Lines Magazine

2025-09-01

• The Coming Ecological Cold War - Foreign Policy

2025-08-29

• Is Trump taking control of Corporate America? - Al Jazeera
• US Military Redeployment in Iraq: Strategic Withdrawal or Tactical Shift? - Geopolitical Monitor

2025-08-26

• Ukraine, Land Swaps, and Patriotic Assassination - Cato Institute

2025-08-25

• Talking and Fighting Intersect in Gaza - The Soufan Center

• Area: 2,344,858 sq km - CIA World Factbook
• Background: Bantu, Sudanic, and other migrants from West and Northeastern Africa arrived in the Congo River Basin between 2000 B.C. and A.D. 500. - CIA World Factbook
• Background: The Kingdom of Kongo, for example, ruled the area around the mouth of the Congo River from the 14th to 19th centuries. - CIA World Factbook
• Background: The territory that is now the Democratic Republic of the Congo has more than 200 ethnic groups that trace their histories to many communal organizations and kingdoms. - CIA World Factbook
• Branches: Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (Forces d'Armees de la Republique Democratique du Congo, FARDC): Land Forces (Forces Terrestres), National Navy (La Marine Nationale), Congolese Air Force (Force Aerienne Congolaise, FAC); Republican Guard (Garde Républicaine, GR); ; Ministry of Interior: Congolese National Police (Police Nationale Congolaise, PNC) (2025) - CIA World Factbook
• Capital: Kinshasa - CIA World Factbook
• Chief of state: President Felix TSHISEKEDI (since 20 January 2024) - CIA World Factbook
• Climate: tropical; hot and humid in equatorial river basin; cooler and drier in southern highlands; cooler and wetter in eastern highlands; north of Equator - wet season (April to October), dry season (December to February); south of Equator - wet season (November to March), dry season (April to October) - CIA World Factbook
• Equipment: the FARDC is equipped mostly with Soviet-era and older French armaments; in recent years, it has received some more modern equipment, such as armored vehicles and armed drones, from China, South Africa, Turkey, and the UAE (2025) - CIA World Factbook
• Ethnic groups: more than 200 African ethnic groups of which the majority are Bantu; the four largest groups - Mongo, Luba, Kongo (all Bantu), and the Mangbetu-Azande (Hamitic) - make up about 45% of the population - CIA World Factbook
• Expenditures: 1.2% of GDP (2024 est.) - CIA World Factbook
• Government type: semi-presidential republic - CIA World Factbook
• Head of government: Prime Minister Judith SUMINWA Tuluka (since 29 May 2024) - CIA World Factbook
• Languages: French (official), Lingala (a trade language), Kingwana (a dialect of Kiswahili or Swahili), Kikongo, Tshiluba - CIA World Factbook
• Legal system: civil law system primarily based on Belgian law, but also customary and tribal law - CIA World Factbook
• Life expectancy: 62.6 years (2024 est.) - CIA World Factbook
• Literacy: 73.6% (2018 est.) - CIA World Factbook
• Location: Central Africa, northeast of Angola - CIA World Factbook
• Major urban areas: 16.316 million KINSHASA (capital), 2.892 million Mbuji-Mayi, 2.812 million Lubumbashi, 1.664 million Kananga, 1.423 million Kisangani, 1.249 million Bukavu (2023) - CIA World Factbook
• Median age: 16.9 years (2025 est.) - CIA World Factbook
• Natural resources: cobalt, copper, niobium, tantalum, petroleum, industrial and gem diamonds, gold, silver, zinc, manganese, tin, uranium, coal, hydropower, timber - CIA World Factbook
• Personnel: estimated 100-150,000 active FARDC (2025) - CIA World Factbook
• Population: 119,038,825 (2025 est.) - CIA World Factbook
• Religions: Christian 93/1% (Roman Catholic 29.9%, Protestant 26.7%, other Christian 36.5%), Kimbanguist 2.8%, Muslim 1.3%, other (includes syncretic sects and indigenous beliefs) 1.2%, none 1.3%, unspecified 0.2% (2014 est.) - CIA World Factbook
• Terrain: vast central basin is a low-lying plateau; mountains in east - CIA World Factbook
• Urbanization: 47.4% of total population (2023) - CIA World Factbook