The work addresses a gap in biometric testing, as NIST’s IREX has focused primarily on closed-source commercial iris ...

The Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda-backed armed group M23 signed a ceasefire deal on Saturday, July 19, to end fighting that has devastated the country's mineral-rich but conflict-torn east.

Congolese Nobel Peace Prize laureate Dr. Denis Mukwege greets well-wishers as he arrives for a rally in Goma, Democratic Republic of the Congo, on Dec. 2, 2023 Officials in rural Texas are accused of ...

In DRC women are believed to scare minerals away. But stones were Virginie Adala’s first love. Today the young geologist is on a mission: to mitigate the environmental impact of the mining sector.

In the Democratic Republic of Congo, the fight against mpox – previously known as monkeypox – is entering a new phase. While many are anxious to contain the outbreak – the largest mpox outbreak ever ...

Will tech giant Apple tremble as it opens the letters it received this week from the Congolese government? Describing a “geological scandal” in reference to its rich subsoil, the Democratic Republic ...

Logging companies have “acquired” roughly 1m hectares of Indigenous peoples’ territory in the Democratic Republic of the Congo since 2000, according to a new study. This is part of a wider trend in ...

The Price-to-Book (PB) ratio is a comparative metric used to evaluate a stock's value. It indicates if a stock is undervalued or overvalued compared to industry peers and historical data. However, PB ...

DRC’s outgoing president Joseph Kabila (left) with his successor Felix Tshisekedi in January 2019. Tony Karumba/AFP via Getty Images The surprise 2018 election of Felix Tshisekedi, who took power in ...