The Congolese army called on deserters to rejoin their units on Thursday, as rogue soldiers fired guns and looted parts of ...
EU foreign ministers did not agree to immediately impose sanctions on Rwanda for its alleged role in the escalating conflict ...
Grammy-winning Nigerian singer, Tems, on Friday cancelled her ‘Born in the Wild’ tour stop in Kigali, Rwanda. Tems announced the cancellation of her concert scheduled for March 22, 2025, following the ...
M23 fighters advanced on several fronts in DR Congo's volatile east Friday as the UN Security Council for the first time ...
Kigali justified both efforts by arguing ... but many were refugees and non-combatant Congolese in North and South Kivu, in eastern DRC. Methods of warfare were brutal, especially those employed ...
Kigali soon caved, signing a peace treaty with ... with the mineral-rich North Kivu and South Kivu provinces presenting a tempting target. In 2017, a few hundred M23 militants crossed the border ...
Despite the announcement of a unilateral truce by the M23, the group continues to advance towards South Kivu. An intense battle took place in Nyiabibwe, 70 kilometres from the regional capital Bukavu.
Rwanda denies military support for the M23 but the latest violence has strained already frayed ties between Kigali and ...
Neither Rwandan President Paul Kagame nor his Congolese counterpart Felix Tshisekedi attended Friday's AU meeting.
In January, an offensive from the Rwandan-backed M23 rebel group routed much larger armies of the United Nations and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The rebels seized Goma, the ...
The European Union on Friday summoned Rwanda's ambassador to demand Kigali pull out troops from ... the Wazalendo" pro-Kinshasa militia. The North Kivu city of Masisi and its surroundings "are ...