Angola said it had evacuated 18 members of the MVAR and eight of the MCVA/CIRGL, plus four DRC nationals and two from the Republic of Congo. Read: Rebels enter centre of Congo’s Goma after ...

As conflict continues to escalate in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), the Catholic Church in Angola has signaled its ...

As an East African bloc urged an immediate ceasefire in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwandan-backed M23 rebels who ...

Angola’s President Joao Lourenco demanded the immediate withdrawal of Rwandan troops from Congolese territory on Wednesday amid fighting with the M23 rebels in Goma. Lourenco, who is the African ...

Supported by between 3,000 and 4,000 Rwandan soldiers, according to the United Nations, Congolese rebels managed to enter the ...

In a press release, the Presidency of the Republic of Angola points out that the action ... of the operation of the airport in the city of Goma in safe conditions'. The stabilization of the ...

But Goma, with its population size ... but since the collapse of peace talks in Angola last year, they had been preparing. M23 is the latest in a string of ethnic Tutsi-led insurgencies that ...

A ceasefire in August failed to keep the peace and Angola-mediated talks were abruptly cancelled last month. The M23 briefly occupied Goma at the end of 2012 and was defeated by Congolese forces and ...

GOMA, Congo — Congo has severed diplomatic ... and Rwandan President Paul Kagame had been set to meet Sunday in Angola. Dec. 15, 2024 Rwanda’s foreign minister, Olivier Nduhungirehe, told ...

Map: The Economist Goma is more than 1,500km ... In December diplomatic talks led by Angola and backed by America ended in failure. Rwanda says this is because Congo would not talk to M23.

Democratic Republic of Congo President Felix Tshisekedi will not attend crisis talks with Rwandan leader Paul Kagame on Wednesday, state media said, as M23 rebels backed by Rwandan troops appeared ...