US-brokered agreement will prolong the conflict, analysts say NEWS ANALYSIS | IAN KATUSIIME | The peace agreement signed ...

Nevertheless, over the course of the previous year, the pair had fashioned themselves into two of the least likely soldiers ...

Kibetsi is one of nearly a million Congolese who have returned to their homes since the M23 rebel group — backed by Rwanda ...

Balingene Kibetsi, a woman in her 60s with a child strapped to her back, stood beside the ruins of her wooden house in the small town of Sake, in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo.

In a widely publicized diplomatic step, the Congolese government recently signed a peace agreement with Rwanda, brokered under the leadership of the Trump administration. At the heart of this deal was ...

Any peace efforts must acknowledge the political nature of the crisis in eastern DRC, including the consequences of the ...

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.

While leaders hail a recent peace deal between Rwanda and the DR Congo as a diplomatic breakthrough, observers say deep-rooted tensions and unresolved grievances remain.