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Peace efforts must acknowledge the deeply political nature of the eastern DRC crisis, including the fallout from the collapsed power-sharing deal between Joseph Kabila and Félix Tshisekedi.
The US-brokered negotiations aim to secure the Rwandan forces’ withdrawal from eastern DRC and end Rwanda’s support to AFC/M23.
Uganda is using its partnership with the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) ... likely to fight Coopérative pour le développement du Congo (CODECO)—another rebel group—in addition to ADF.
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 ...
On 27 January, Rwanda-backed Mouvement du 23 Mars (M23) forces took control of Goma, capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s (DRC) North Kivu province.The city’s capture and M23’s advances ...
The warnings from UNICEF add to the ever-growing number of concerning reports on the use of sexual violence coming from the DRC. As Rwandan-backed M23 rebels have been seizing control of key areas ...
The Mouvement du 23 Mars (M23) ... The peace commitment by leaders of the DRC, Rwanda, Burundi, Uganda and Kenya, appears to be the only “game in town”.
DRC marred by blatant failure in coltan traceability, ... These sites were notably those neighboring the Société Aurifère du Kivu et du Maniema (SAKIMA), a Congolese state-owned company.
D eadly floods currently being experienced in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) are becoming ever-more likely as the world’s climate warms, new research has found.. Recent days have seen ...
The DRC’s central bank—Banque Centrale du Congo (BCC)—requires banks operating in the country to have at least four unrelated shareholders, including current owners, to hold a minimum stake ...
The three young men, who were sentenced to death for their part in an attempted coup in the Democratic Republic of Congo last May, were handed over to U.S. authorities and are on their way to the U.S.