Rwanda and Democratic Republic of Congo are set to sign a U.S.-brokered peace agreement in Washington on Friday, raising ...

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Congolese negotiators have dropped a demand that Rwandan troops immediately leave eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, ...

The decades-long conflict in eastern Congo escalated in January, when the Rwanda-backed M23 rebels advanced and seized the ...

The Democratic Republic of Congo has extended by three months a ban on exports of cobalt in a bid to curb oversupply of the ...

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Over 60 years after the killing of the first Congolese prime minister, Patrice Lumumba, prosecutors in Belgium announced ...

KIGALI, Rwanda . The Southern African Development Community (SADC) said Thursday it started the second and final phased withdrawal of its troops from eastern the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Rwanda has been accused of supporting M23 rebels in the east of DR Congo. The group has made major advances at the beginning of the year, taking the key regional cities of Goma and Bukavu.

M23 fighters have already captured major cities in the Democratic Republic of Congo, with the alleged backing of neighboring Rwanda. The UN and the US have called for a ceasefire, as fear grows that ...