Oct 05 Watch Conflict minerals from the Congo to your cellphone National Geographic photographer Marcus Bleasdale finds beauty in trauma. His work in the Congo is featured in the magazine’s 125th anniversary issue. “The Price of Precious” documents child labor in camps that extract not blood diamonds, but tin, tungsten and… Continue watching
Mar 14 Top Five and Bottom Five Countries in U.N. Ratings By Larisa Epatko As in the U.N. Development Program's last review in 2011, Norway reigns supreme and the United States made the top five, while the African nations of Niger and the Democratic Republic of Congo came in last. Continue reading
Jul 10 Watch News Wrap: Eurozone Agrees to Spain Bailout Package; Oil Prices Fall In other news Tuesday, Spain will get its first bailout payment of more than $36 billion before the end of the month. In early trading on Wall Street, stocks moved higher, but gains were erased by falling oil prices. Continue watching
Mar 07 Watch ‘The Worst Place on Earth to Be a Woman’: Healing the Eastern Congo 'The Worst Place on Earth to Be a Woman': Healing the Eastern Congo… Continue watching
Dec 14 10 Congolese Youth on Why They Voted – or Didn’t By Extra DA Congolese youth share their views about why they voted in December 2011 elections and whether or not they felt it mattered. Continue reading
Nov 29 Watch In Egypt and Congo, Questions of Election Legitimacy Remain Millions of Africans voted Tuesday in two very different elections. Margaret Warner discusses elections in Egypt and Congo with The International Republican Institute's Scott Mastic, who's leading an election monitoring team in Cairo, and Soloman Moore of The Wall Street… Continue watching
Jun 21 Refugee Hot Zones Around the World By Talea Miller The UN Refugee Agency released new 2010 data on the countries hosting the largest numbers of refugees and the countries producing large refugee populations. Continue reading
Oct 15 Watch Rape Victims Make Voices Heard in Congo Lindsay Hilsum of Independent Television News reports on the use of rape as a weapon of war in eastern Congo. Continue watching
Sep 13 Watch Victims, Rapists Speak Out on Rape as Weapon of War in Congo Independent Television News reports on the ongoing use of violent rape as a weapon of war in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Continue watching
Sep 13 Watch In Congo, Attitudes About Rape as a Weapon Remain Tough to Change Gwen Ifill talks with two experts familiar with the sexual violence that has occurred in the Democratic Republic of Congo over the past decade. Continue watching