Archive for July 31st, 2025

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31/07/2025

Forests, Fossil Fuels, and the Fight for the Future: DR Congo’s Oil Expansion Sparks Global Alarm

Human Wrongs Watch

By Umar Manzoor 

SRINAGAR, India & KINSHASA, DRC, Jul 29 2025 (IPS)* — The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) stands on the precipice of a profound environmental and social crisis, as the government prepares to auction 55 new oil blocks that cover more than half the country’s landmass.
Activists march in the street of Goma, in the Democratic Republic of Congo to demand climate justice and an end to oil exploration in the Virunga National Park. Credit: MNKF Creatives

Activists march in the street of Goma, in the Democratic Republic of Congo to demand climate justice and an end to oil exploration in the Virunga National Park. Credit: MNKF Creatives

Touted as a pathway to economic growth, the move has triggered fierce backlash from scientists, civil society groups, Indigenous leaders, and international conservationists, who warn that the proposed fossil fuel expansion threatens some of the most ecologically and culturally significant landscapes on Earth.

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31/07/2025

Six Months into Congo’s War, Cholera Is Killing More than Four People… Every Day

Human Wrongs Watch

By OXFAM International*

Francoise lost six children in the conflict in DRC. She has been displaced to a camp in Bunia with her five remaining children after their village was attacked. Photo: John Wessels/Oxfam

Francoise lost six children in the conflict in DRC. She has been displaced to a camp in Bunia with her five remaining children after their village was attacked. Photo: John Wessels/Oxfam

Six months since the renewed war in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), a full-blown public health emergency is accelerating, Oxfam warned on 24 July 2025

Since January, more than 35,000 suspected cholera cases and at least 852 related deaths have been reported – an average of more than four deaths every day and a 62 percent increase compared to 2024.

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31/07/2025

Cholera Outbreak in West and Central Africa: 80,000 Children at ‘High Risk’  

Human Wrongs Watch

(UN News)* — Some 80,000 children are estimated to be at high risk of cholera in West and Central Africa as the rainy season begins across the region, the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said on Wednesday []. 

A cholera awareness session is held for young students in Bweremana, in the DR Congo's North Kivu province.
© UNICEF/Jospin Benekire | A cholera awareness session is held for young students in Bweremana, in the DR Congo’s North Kivu province.

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31/07/2025

Haitians in ‘Despair’ Following ‘Abrupt Suspension’ of US Humanitarian Support

Human Wrongs Watch

By Daniel Dickinson 

 (UN News)* — People in Haiti have expressed “despair” following the “abrupt suspension” of a wide range of humanitarian services, according to the UN aid coordination office, OCHA, in the Caribbean country.

Over 600 families who fled their homes because of violence are now living in tents in a former school.

© UNOCHA/Giles Clarke | Over 600 families who fled their homes because of violence are now living in tents in a former school.

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