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Civil war, drought and disease have triggered emergency food shortages in 16 African countries, warns a UN food agency.

Angelina Jolie is meeting with women and girls in eastern Congo, where sexual violence is rampant. Jolie, a special envoy for the UN refugee agency, traveled to the Nzulo camp near Goma on Monday along with British Foreign Secretary William Hague.

This is about the Congo and justice that is needed.

Armed conflict in the DRC involving the national army and a range of Congolese and foreign armed groups has continued mostly in the eastern provinces of North and South Kivu since the war officially ended in 2002. All fighting forces have unlawfully recruited boys and girls and have used them in hostilities including, although not only, as fighters.

Democratic Republic of Congo or DR Congo is a war torn Central African country bordering the republic of Sudan to the north, The republics of Uganda, Burundi and Rwanda in the east, The republics of Zambia and Angola to the south and the Atlantic ocean to the west with about 37km coastline.

The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is quickly becoming recognized as a wonderful option for families looking to grow their families through adoption. The DRC has about 4.2 million orphan children due to significant poverty, death of one or more parents by HIV/AIDS, war and famine.

This part of the globalissues.org web site looks at the conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Media coverage is poor and yet there have been millions of refugees and over five million killed since the war began around August 1998.

In November 2012 the M23 group besieged Goma, the regional capital of Congo's eastern province of North Kivu. The violence forced tens of thousands of Congolese out of their homes. Here, people flee the town of Sake, 26km west of Goma, on November 22, 2012.

The M23 rebel group is fighting the Democratic Republic of Congo military for control of the country, and the violence is driving tens of thousands of Congolese out of their homes. Here on November 22, thousands fled the town of Sake and headed east to the camps for displaced in the village of Mugunga.