Current political and economic issues succinctly explained. In January, rebel fighters claimed the eastern city of Goma in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Their sweep into Goma—a ...

02/08/2025 February 8, 2025 The Rwanda-backed M23 militia is closing in on the town of Bukavu in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo and pushing into the South Kivu province. More than 2 ...

Rwanda-backed rebels declared a ceasefire in the Democratic Republic of Congo, bowing to international pressure to halt ...

Rebels have captured eastern town of Nyabibwe Government says its forces resist advance U.N. estimates at least 2,800 killed in fighting GOMA, Democratic Republic of Congo, Feb 5 (Reuters ...

Feb. 4 (UPI) --Rebels occupying the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo city of Goma called a unilateral pause in the fighting, but the government dismissed the cease-fire as a stunt designed to ...

The State Department ordered non-emergency US government personnel and their family members to leave the Democratic Republic of Congo amid escalating violence in the country and its capital city ...

President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo Felix Tshisekedi met Saturday in Kinshasa with HE Minister of State at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Dr. Mohammed bin Abdulaziz bin Saleh Al ...

The idea of Rwanda invading the Democratic Republic of Congo looks, on paper, preposterous. However, as an alliance of rebel groups seized Goma, the biggest city in the DRC’s east, we ask: what is the ...

Almost 3,000 people have been killed in fighting in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the UN has said. Vivian van de Perre, a senior UN official based in the city of Goma, said the ...

At least 50 people have been killed in the eastern Ituri province of the Democratic Republic of Congo, several local officials said. They set fire to houses, looted and reportedly raped women and ...

JOHANNESBURG, Feb 10 (Reuters) - South Africa has sent additional troops and military equipment to Democratic Republic of Congo in recent days, political and diplomatic sources said, after 14 of ...

Members of M23 rebel patrol on the street of Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo (Brian Inganga/AP) The UN’s top human rights body is holding an urgent session on spiralling violence in the ...