Congo Evidence Observatory
Understand the conflict. Follow the evidence.
Source-linked documentation and analysis of conflict incidents, actors, and patterns in the DRC.
Peace through systemic change
Congo’s wealth should build peace and prosperity for its people.
We work to transform the systems that sustain conflict and leave Congolese communities behind. Through evidence, global responsibility, and community-led action, we are building pathways toward lasting peace.
Secondary-school students and a Vijana Africa staff member outside a school in the Goma area. — Photo: Vijana Africa.
Tech Peace for Congo
Congo’s wealth must benefit Congolese people.
Connecting the technology sector, consumer awareness, and community-directed investment.
Since 2013
Building peace and opportunity since 2013.
From our roots in the Democratic Republic of Congo to our growing engagement in the United States, Vijana Africa works alongside young people and communities to advance peace, education, economic opportunity, and civic leadership.
Since 2013
Founded in the Democratic Republic of Congo
From our organizational overview.
10,800+
People served across our programs
Since 2013, Vijana Africa has served more than 10,800 people through education, peacebuilding, entrepreneurship, and civic engagement.
3 countries
Organizational base and affiliate offices: United States, Democratic Republic of Congo, Malawi
The United States is our organizational base and a center of advocacy, research, institutional engagement, and community work. The Democratic Republic of Congo is an affiliate office and our major center of program implementation. Malawi is an affiliate office, reflecting historical organizational and program experience.
Our flagship platforms
Technology built for accountability.
Two living, public platforms carry our systemic work: one tracks documented conflict incidents, the other tracks corporate accountability in Congo’s mineral supply chains.
Flagship platform · Systemic accountability
Understand the conflict. Follow the evidence.
A live, source-linked observatory of documented incidents, actors, and trends across the DRC — built for journalists, researchers, policymakers, and the public.
Live screenshot from congoevidence.org, captured October 2026.
Flagship platform · Corporate accountability
Congo’s wealth should build peace and prosperity for its people.
A public atlas tracking proposed humanitarian-project pledges from tech and EV companies across Congo’s mining regions, alongside a public directory of participating brands.
Live screenshot from techpeaceforcongo.org, captured October 2026.
The future is bigger than conflict.
Rooted in possibility.
Connected across borders.
Not just a different tomorrow. The opportunity to shape it.
Vijana Africa is a U.S.-based nonprofit organization with affiliate offices in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Malawi. Founded in 2013, we advance peace and conflict transformation through education, entrepreneurship, and civic engagement, working alongside young people and communities to build peaceful, inclusive societies.
Meet Vijana AfricaThree pillars, four areas of work
Where our mission takes shape.
Vijana Africa’s founding one-pager names four areas of work. Each connects to our three strategic pillars and to the programs below.
Education for All
Through the Vijana Mobile School and community-based learning initiatives, we expand educational opportunities for children and young people affected by conflict, displacement, and limited access to digital resources.
Part of Education and Youth Development
Non-Military Peacebuilding
We work with youth, faith leaders, educators, and communities to encourage dialogue, nonviolence, social cohesion, and locally led approaches to conflict transformation.
Part of Peacebuilding, Civilian Protection and Social Cohesion
Economic Empowerment
We support the knowledge, skills, leadership, and community relationships that help young people pursue entrepreneurship, livelihoods, and economic resilience.
Part of Economic Empowerment and Community Resilience
Ethical Sourcing and Responsible Technology
We engage communities, institutions, researchers, and technology stakeholders in conversations and initiatives that promote responsible mineral supply chains, accountability, and greater benefits for Congolese communities.
Connects research, policy, and advocacy across all three pillars
Systemic change begins with people.
Our work
Different paths.
A shared future.
The community-based programs that meet young people where they are — alongside the flagship platforms above.
Education & Digital Inclusion
Vijana Mobile School
Tablets, learning materials, and trained facilitators brought into partner schools in Goma.
Peacebuilding & Community Protection
Gender-Based Violence Prevention
School-based awareness on safety, consent, dignity, and reporting pathways in the Goma area.
Peacebuilding & Community Protection
Community Peacebuilding
Faith- and community-based dialogues encouraging mutual respect and peaceful coexistence.
Youth Leadership & Economic Opportunity
Msingi wa Maendeleo
Organizational capacity-strengthening for youth-led civil society organizations.
Youth Leadership & Economic Opportunity
Youth Leadership & Economic Opportunity
Putting young people’s leadership and economic opportunity at the center of a peaceful future.
Education & Digital Inclusion
Vijana Africa Campus in Goma
A free community learning, research, and action hub for young leaders and their communities in Goma.
Illustrative stock photograph. Not Vijana Africa program imagery.
In focus / Vijana Mobile School
When learning moves with the children who need it.
Since 2024, our Vijana Mobile School has brought tablets, learning materials, and trained facilitators into partner schools in Goma — 770 training participations across 2024–2026, including 160 in the 2026 school year alone.
A classroom is more than a place. It is a possibility.
Explore Vijana Mobile School
In focus / Community Peacebuilding
Peace is practiced in conversation.
Community peacebuilding brings together faith leaders and community members for dialogues encouraging mutual respect, peaceful coexistence, and social cohesion.
Explore Community PeacebuildingImpact & accountability
Trust is built through what we can show.
Behind every number is real work in the field. Behind every story, a person whose dignity comes first.
Our Impact page shows how we measure reach, participation, and outcomes across our programs — with clear definitions for every figure.
Our approach to accountabilityStories & news
Ideas worth carrying forward.
Youth Leadership & Economic Opportunity / Editorial preview · September 22–25, 2026
Five organizations, one training week
Ten representatives from five youth-led organizations spent four days strengthening how their organizations work.
Research & Responsible Technology / Editorial preview · September 23, 2026
Tech Peace for Congo at the Congo Tech Expo
On September 23, 2026, Vijana Africa brought its message on responsible technology and conflict minerals to the Congo Tech Expo in New York.
Peacebuilding & Community Protection / Editorial preview · September 19, 2026
Hosting a community conversation on investing in peace
On September 19, 2026, Vijana Africa hosted a community gathering, “What Does It Mean to Invest in Peace?,” at Eastern Mennonite University ahead of the UN International Day of Peace on September 21.
Editorial previews of stories from our recent work in the Democratic Republic of Congo and the United States.
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Gifts to Vijana Africa support the Mobile School, community peacebuilding, and the other programs described on this page.