African Union holds Silencing the Guns summit

As African leaders hold a summit aimed at ending conflicts across the continent, fear continues to grip people in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
The Allied Democratic Forces rebel group has been blamed for months of attacks on people in the DRC’s east, despite a Congolese military offensive.
Al Jazeera’s Catherine Soi reports.

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In This Story: Democratic Republic of Congo

The Democratic Republic of the Congo, also known as Congo-Kinshasa, DR Congo, the DROC, or simply either Congo or the Congo, and historically Zaire, is a country in Central Africa. The capital is Kinshasa.

With a population of over 101 million, the Democratic Republic of the Congo is the most-populous officially Francophone country in the world.

The Democratic Republic of the Congo is extremely rich in natural resources but has suffered from political instability. As of 2018, around 600,000 Congolese have fled to neighbouring countries from conflicts in the centre and east of the DRC. Two million children risk starvation, and the fighting has displaced 4.5 million people.

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