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The deployment follows recent statements by Gen. Kainerugaba, who last week threatened to capture Bunia in response to alleged attacks on the Bahima e...
A passenger boat from Bukavu to Goma left on Tuesday morning, operator Lweni Ndale said, adding it was the first he had sent since late January, short...
Kainerugaba routinely makes inflammatory posts on social media, including a threat in 2022 to invade neighbouring Kenya.
M23 rebels have been pushing south towards Bukavu, the second-largest city in eastern DRC, since they seized Goma, the largest city, at the end of las...
African Union analyst Emmanuel Bensah told DW from Accra, Ghana, that it is crucial that African leaders attending the summit in Addis present concret...
Heavy shelling was reported along the frontline on Tuesday morning, rebel, military and local sources told Reuters.
This comes just a day after Kinshasa sent its ambassador to Botswana and SADC to the foreign ministers' preparatory meeting.
UN reports indicate that Goma, the provincial capital, is effectively under siege, with exit routes blocked and its airport shut down indefinitely.
The mission began its peace enforcement efforts nearly from scratch following the return of armed groups mainly M23 to the areas they had withdrawn fr...
On allegations that Rwanda smuggles other minerals from eastern DRC, Kagame shifted focus to global actors, particularly Western nations.
The upcoming summit will be the first of its kind, bringing together EAC and SADC to address the DRC crisis.
Their mandate is to support the DRC government, a member of the 16-member SADC group, in restoring peace, security and stability.
He accused Rwanda of deploying "thousands of soldiers" into eastern DRC, intensifying tensions between the two neighbours.
DRC President Felix Tshisekedi was absent, as had earlier been confirmed by his spokesperson Tina Salama.
The Rwandan-backed M23 rebels marched into Goma, the largest city in eastern Congo, on Monday in the worst escalation of a long-running conflict in mo...
An escalation of the three-year insurgency in Congo since the start of the year has forced around 400,000 people from their homes.
Francois Moreillon, head of the International Committee of the Red Cross in Congo, told Reuters that a medicine warehouse had been looted.
The council urged Rwanda and the DRC to return to talks to achieve peace and address issues related to the presence of Rwanda Defence Forces in the ea...
The Rwanda-backed M23 rebels have quickly gained ground this month in DRC's conflict-riven eastern borderlands and launched an assault on Goma.
