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In a child marriage, one or both parties are under the age of eighteen years old. [19] In the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), 37% of girls are married before they turn eighteen, and 10% of girls are married before age fifteen. [18] Though significantly less than the rate of child marriage for girls, 6% of boys in the DRC are married ...
Major environmental issues in DRC include deforestation, poaching, which threatens wildlife populations, water pollution and mining. A dense tropical rainforest in the DRC's central river basin and eastern highlands is bordered on the east by the Albertine Rift (the western branch of Africa's Great Rift System).
Nothing Without Women (Rien sans les Femmes) is a feminist organization established in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 2015. [1] Nothing Without Women was formed in March 2015 as a coalition of international NGOs and local women's groups in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo. [1] The group had two aims: to ensure that the Parity ...
Congo's president says he has confidence Wednesday's vote will be rolled out credibly, as tensions mount that a severe lack of electoral preparation could throw the conflict-riddled nation into ...
The provisional tally so far is based on results from 52,173 out of almost 76,000 polling stations, according to the CENI. Factbox-The latest results in Congo’s disputed election Skip to main ...
Congolese President Felix Tshisekedi on Monday appointed the country's first female prime minister, fulfilling a campaign promise and taking an important step toward the formation of a new ...
Different discourses have shaped the way that sustainable development is approached, and women have become more integrated into shaping these ideas. The definition of sustainable development is highly debated, but is defined by Harcourt as a way to "establish equity between generations" and to take into account "social, economic, and environmental needs to conserve non-renewable resources" and ...
The vote will determine whether President Felix Tshisekedi serves a second term after a first five years in office marked by economic hardship and spiralling insecurity in Congo's rebel-plagued east.