Rwanda and Congo sign peace agreement in Washington
Rwanda and Democratic Republic of Congo signed a US-brokered peace agreement on Friday, raising hopes for an end to fighting that has killed thousands and displaced hundreds of thousands more ...
Congo Catholic delegation meets rebel leader as forces advance
Representatives of Congo’s powerful Catholic church met on Wednesday with a rebel leader whose Rwandan-backed M23 forces last month seized Goma, the biggest city in the country’s east, ...
Rwanda-backed rebels bed down in Congo’s Goma and push south for further gains
The United Nations expressed deep concern at reports of M23 rebels and Rwandan troops advancing south towards the Congolese city of Bukavu on Thursday, as the militants sought also to ...
East African leaders call for immediate ceasefire in eastern Congo
Heads of state of eight-member East African Community regional block on Wednesday called for an immediate and unconditional ceasefire in eastern Congo, they said in a statement.
They also called ...
Rwandan-backed rebels enter Congo’s Goma in major escalation
Rwandan-backed rebels marched into eastern Congo’s largest city Goma on Monday, and the UN said they were supported by at least some regular Rwandan troops, in the worst escalation ...
Congo sentences 13 soldiers to death in bid to boost discipline
A Congolese military tribunal has sentenced 13 soldiers to death on charges including murder, looting, and cowardice in what military authorities said was a drive to improve army discipline after territorial ...
Kenya, Rwanda request M23 ceasefire and withdrawal from east Congo
Kenya’s former president Uhuru Kenyatta and Rwanda’s President Paul Kagame have agreed on the need for M23 rebels to cease fire and withdraw from captured territories in east ...
Trial date for man filmed beating migrant set
The trial date for the 43-year-old man accused of beating a 29-year-old asylum seeker who was holding her baby was on Wednesday set for November 11.
It is understood that the ...
Disy leader faces criticism for trip to DRC to discuss migration (Updated)
Disy leader and presidential candidate Averof Neophytou is due to hold talks with government representatives from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) about migration flows to Cyprus after he travelled ...
Protesters ransack UN peacekeepers’ offices in eastern DR Congo
Hundreds of protesters attacked a United Nations peacekeeping force’s warehouse and looted offices on Monday in Goma in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, demanding that the mission leave ...
Rangers concerned deep water port could threaten Congo’s sea turtles
By Hereward Holland
Each year Christian Ndombe and other park rangers scour the beaches of Democratic Republic of Congo’s vanishing coastline for turtle nests, bringing the eggs to a ...
Fears of new eruption sees thousands flee Congoleses city Goma
Thousands of local people and some aid workers scrambled to flee the Congolese city of Goma on Thursday after officials said a second volcanic eruption could hit with little or ...
Armed group denies killing Italian ambassador in Congo
An armed group in eastern Congo, accused by the government of carrying out an ambush on a United Nations convoy in which Italy’s ambassador and two other people were ...
Italian envoy and two others killed in attack on UN convoy in Congo
Italy’s ambassador to the Democratic Republic of Congo and two other people were killed on Monday in an attack on a United Nations convoy in eastern Congo, Italy’s ...