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Relations between Rwanda and South Africa have soured as security deteriorates in eastern DR Congo. As the violence escalates, both regional powers seem unable to ...

And Corneille Nangaa, who leads a rebel alliance of which M23 is the largest member, has vowed to march on the DRC’s capital in Kinshasa. Located 1,000 miles west of Goma, the capture of ...

Some 7,000 people have died since January in fighting in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), its prime minister told a high-level meeting of the Human Rights Council in Geneva on Monday.

On January 31, 2025, United Nations agencies called for an end to the violence in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) as fighting between Government forces and the Rwandan-backed ...

The M23 is the most prominent of more than 100 armed groups vying for control of eastern DRC’s trillions of dollars in mineral wealth, critical in the production of much of the world’s technology.

Rwanda welcomed calls for a regional summit on the DRC crisis. M23 fighters, backed by Rwanda, have made gains in eastern DRC and took Goma. Soldiers from SA, Malawi and Tanzania have been killed in ...

Rwanda-backed forces in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) have announced that they will pause their advance across the east of the country for humanitarian reasons. The AFC/M23 rebel ...

Fractures are forming in Brussels over the escalating conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Rwanda's involvement. Belgian members of the European Parliament are pressuring the ...

Until now, Rwanda's President Paul Kagame has rejected accusations by the DRC, the UN and Burundi that Rwandan troops were involved in the fighting. However, in an interview with the French magazine ...

In a statement by the US State Department, Gen Kabarebe, Kanyuka and two companies are linked to violence and human rights abuses in eastern DRC. “The United States is sanctioning today two ...