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Many had little choice after M23 dismantled displacement camps upon seizing Goma, eastern DR Congo's largest city, in late January.
SAMIDRC was deployed on December 15, 2023, to support the DRC government in restoring peace and stability in the eastern region, following the withdra...
The mission encountered significant setbacks, including the loss of 20 soldiers and being pinned down by M23 fighters. A deal struck in March between...
In recent weeks, heavy rains caused River Rugumba to overflow, flooding large parts of the Kalemie and Nyunzu territories. The water destroyed homes,...
A report from the DRC Education Cluster, which includes Save the Children on Friday, reveals that school attendance has plummeted due to intensified f...
The other facilitators are Nigeria's former president Olusegun Obasanjo and Ethiopia's former Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn.
The rebel group also expressed gratitude to regional leaders and international partners for their continuous efforts in facilitating a political resol...
Fighting with the M23 has continued outside the town, in the southern part of the wider Lubero territory, for the past 72 hours, Congolese army spokes...
Vaccination programmes were partially restored on February 5, after the M23 declared a ceasefire, however, the situation remains "tense and volatile",...
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.
Ruto revealed that he had spoken with both DRC President Félix Tshisekedi and Rwandan President Paul Kagame to defuse the situation.
The United Nations said it had started temporarily relocating its non-essential staff from Goma due to the deteriorating security situation.
The renewal means nearly 11,000 peacekeepers will continue their deployment until at least December 2025.
Congo's mpox vaccination campaign is a key step in efforts to contain the outbreak at its epicentre
In eastern Congo, people are trapped between relentless fighting in their villages and overcrowded camps with scarce food and rampant mpox. Survival i...
A potential regional conflict could see Rwanda fighting against a coalition led by South Africa, which includes the DRC, Malawi, and Tanzania.
Given the dire humanitarian conditions of the displaced and local populations, the truce is a most welcome intervention.
This denial came after Kinshasa summoned Uganda's Chargé d'Affaires, Matata Twaha Magara on Friday, July 19, to discuss the issue.
In areas they control in North Kivu, armed actors from all sides are profiting off the production or trade in wooden planks, while illegal and uncontr...
The WHO has registered over 20,000 cases of cholera across the country so far this year and 60,000 cases of measles, with real numbers probably higher...
"The war in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is threatening regional peace and stability," warned Kiir in a statement posted on X by the South S...
Speaking for the first time since the trial began, Malanga's son, Marcel Malanga, 22, and Benjamin Zalman-Polun told the court that the coup leader ha...
The Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), a rebel group, are alleged to have killed more than 40 people in an attack on Mayikengo village this week and over...
The victims were hacked to death with machetes while they were in their homes or the fields, the official said, adding that some were executed while t...
A US federal appeals court recently dismissed a lawsuit targeting Apple, Google, Tesla, and other tech giants
Goma has a resident population of one million, with another million displaced by the war crammed into desperate, temporary camps that have become the...
Three other TPDF soldiers are nursing serious injuries from the attack, according to SADC.
The UNHCR is calling for an immediate end to the violence and urges all parties to the conflict to respect and uphold international humanitarian law a...
The United States-based Center for Civilians in Conflict on Tuesday denounced the use of heavy artillery and mortar shells against civilian installati...
