The decades-long conflict in eastern Congo escalated in January, when the Rwanda-backed M23 advanced and seized the strategic city of Goma in North Kivu province ... including 100,000 who fled homes ...

A total of 21 out of 63 provinces and centrally-run cities nationwide no longer have temporary or dilapidated houses by June 9, according to the Ministry of Ethnic and Religious Affairs. By June 7, ...

The US is actively pushing for a peace accord between Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Rwanda, with the aim of having both sign an agreement at the White House within two months, Reuters ...

DOHA (Reuters) -The U.S. is pushing Congo and Rwanda to sign a peace accord at the White House in about two months, accompanied by bilateral mineral deals that would bring billions of dollars of ...

Alice Kayitesi, the Governor of the Southern Province, which includes eight districts, told The New Times that prior to consolidation, the province had 69 Genocide memorial sites and 75 graves.

Rwanda's Permanent Representative to the UN Ernest Rwamucyo speaks during a Security Council meeting at the United Nations headquarters, Sunday, Jan. 26, 2025 ...

Rwandan-backed rebels now control large parts of eastern Congo and threaten to expand their offensive west into two neighboring provinces, the top U.N. official in the conflict-torn country says ...

The M23 rebels are backed by some 4,000 troops from Rwanda, according to UN experts, far more than in 2012 when they first briefly captured Goma and then withdrew after international pressure.

The UN says conflict has forced 6.7 million people from their homes within the country, most from North and South Kivu provinces where violence and insecurity have increased since 2021, with the ...

M23 is in fact a proxy for Rwanda, allowing it to grab a big chunk of Congolese territory while pretending not to. Thousands of Rwandan troops have crossed into Congo to help.