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In an apparent damage-control effort, South African Minister of International Relations Ronald Lamola engaged his Rwandan counterpart, Olivier Nduhung...
The meeting comes just days after the M23 rebel group seized control of Goma, the regional capital, in a dramatic escalation of its years-long insurge...
Rwanda confirmed that the mercenaries’ home countries had requested assistance in their repatriation and urged those nations to hold them accountable.
Angola further called for the resumption of the Nairobi peace process under former President Uhuru Kenyatta which was mandated to address internal con...
Three of the soldiers died in fighting at the airport in the provincial capital of Goma on Monday, said officials.
By last night, three MONUSCO peacekeepers had died in 48 hours in the line of fire between the forces allied to the local army FARDC and the M23 rebel...
Dismissing the possibility of a military solution, Ruto stressed the importance of understanding the root causes of the long-running conflict.
The governor of Congo's North Kivu province, Peter Chirimwami, has died from injuries sustained during fighting on the front line, according to the mi...
The M23 rebels have escalated their offensive and recently captured Sake, a key town in South Kivu, heightening the threat to Goma, the capital of Nor...
Head of M23’s political wing Bertrand Bisimwa, termed the group’s efforts as an “existential war” to protect Congolese Tutsis, who he claims have long...
The move dashes hopes of a deal to curb Congo's M23 rebel conflict that has displaced more than 1.9 million people.
Retired military officers from Europe protect the DRC capital of North Kivu from falling to Rwandan-backed rebels. The job is well paid but soldiers m...
"We were ready to sign ... but the Congolese minister refused. She first commented on the report and then later, after consultation, she came back. Sh...
The M23 movement, a Tutsi-led organisation purportedly backed by Rwanda, seized the area, which produces minerals used in smartphones and computers, f...
The Rwandan leader claims that Kinshasa has armed FDLR and uses it to fight the M23, who are Congolese.
"I must confess, President Ruto is supporting Rwanda, and I won't say anything more about that," Tshisekedi said during a DRC session hosted by the Br...
The DRC demanded the withdrawal despite UN concerns about rampant violence in the east of the country.
The country currently has 6.7 million people displaced within its borders, amid serious flooding emergencies and a resurgence of measles and cholera o...
Rwanda cited repeated violations of its airspace by Congolese fighter jets as contributing to the heightened tensions.
This marks SA's first fatalities since it deployed 2,900 troops to the mineral-rich region last December to quell violence.
