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Protesters demanding action over the M23 rebel group’s offensive in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) have attacked several embassies in the capital, Kinshasa. Crowds of demonstrators attacked the embassies of France, Belgium, Rwanda, Uganda, Kenya, and the United States and smoke could...

Congo severed diplomatic ties with Rwanda as fighting between Rwanda-backed rebels and government forces raged around the key eastern city of Goma, leaving at least 13 peacekeepers and foreign soldiers dead and displacing thousands of civilians. The M23 rebel group has made significant territorial...

The Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda have signed a document key to advancing the peace process in the DRC's troubled east, ceasefire-broker Angola said on Monday. Since 2021 the Kigali-backed and largely ethnic Tutsi M23 rebel militia has seized swathes of the eastern DRC, displacing...

M23 rebels, reportedly backed by Rwanda, seized Sunday the strategic town of Kamandi Gîte, according to media reports. Local media cited sources on the ground to report that forced displacements were observed in the wake of the town's fall to the hands of the rebels. The fresh fighting comes when...

The International Criminal Court (ICC) prosecutor said Monday he is renewing an investigation in Congo and focusing on allegations of crimes committed in the conflict-torn North Kivu province in the central African nation’s east since early 2022. Eastern Congo has long been overrun by more than 120...

The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), represented by Samuel Mbemba, Deputy Minister of Justice and Legal Affairs, is seeking to condemn Rwanda for alleged aggression in the region, including looting, rapes, and massacres. Kinshasa hopes to secure reparations from Kigali. A preliminary hearing was...

Ahead of presidential and legislative elections in Rwanda, tense relations with Rwanda’s bigger neighbor, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), remain a deepening challenge for both countries and the broader region, say analysts. Escalating tensions between the two, intensified by a United...

The U.N. peacekeeping mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo will pause its withdrawal, with no timeline set for the next phase following the initial one in June, the government and mission said. In September last year, President Felix Tshisekedi asked the mission to fast-track the withdrawal...

At least seven people have been killed in unrest in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo's North Kivu province, local officials said on Saturday, after people took to the streets to protest against a surge in deadly attacks by suspected Islamist rebels. The Allied Democratic Forces, a rebel group...

At least 12 people, including children, have been killed in twin bomb blasts that hit two camps for displaced people in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), according to government officials, the United Nations (UN), and an aid group. The explosions on May 3 targeted the camps in Lac Vert...