The conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has entered a new and more destabilizing stage. A call for a pause ...

Is a deadly past replaying for Congolese as M23 rebels march on Kinshasa amid presence of Rwandan and Ugandan troops?

The Banyene family’s return to Sake, a town in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), was far from a homecoming.

FARDC is an abbreviation for the DRC armed forces. In September 2024, New York-based Human Rights Watch reported that the Rwandan army and the M23 armed group have “indiscriminately shelled ...

"This increase in crime is due to the circulation of weapons abandoned by the soldiers" of the DRC army, OCHA said, adding that this "raises the risk of an increase of insecurity in the province".

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DRC must be held accountable for its continued preservation of FDLR, embedding it in its army, equipping the FDLR with sophisticated weapons and using it as an ally and fighting force." ...

A report by UN experts has said Rwanda maintains some 4,000 troops in the eastern DRC in support of the M23. Rwanda denies providing the group with military assistance. The DRC says the M23's ...

Felix Tshisekedi, the president of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Rwandan President Paul Kagame have held ...

Congolese President Felix Tshisekedi has more than doubled military spending to $794 million (€732 million) — which raises questions about how M23 fighters have managed togain control of such ...

The DRC has accused Rwanda of sending weapons and troops to support the ... The EU also sanctioned three Rwandan military commanders and the country’s mining agency chief over support for ...