The seven-nation East African Community (EAC) began the deployment last November with Kenyan soldiers arriving in the volatile region, followed this year by Burundian, Ugandan and South Sudanese contingents. Its ...
At least 394 bodies have been recovered after last week’s floods, said Thomas Bakenga, administrator of Kalehe territory where the affected villages are located. He had announced a toll of ...
After several days of relative calm, fighting erupted on Monday in the flashpoint province of North Kivu, leaving several civilians dead and injured, hospital sources and aid workers said. The ...
The air bridge will link with Goma, the capital of DR Congo‘s eastern North Kivu province, where fighting with the rebel group M23 has displaced more than 600,000 people. The ...
French President Emmanuel Macron will preside over the two-day conference from Libreville in the heart of Africa’s “green lung”: more than 200 million hectares of forest spread over six countries, filled with biodiverse species found nowhere else ...
The pontiff also appealed to those who “plunder, scourge and destabilise” the turbulent region to lay down their weapons, on the second day of his visit to the country, Africa‘s ...
Here are five things to know about this vast nation: Mineral wealth, dire poverty The DRC is awash with minerals and precious stones, from gold, diamonds and coltan to tin, ...
The trip – his fifth to Africa – takes the 86-year-old pope to countries blighted by conflict and poverty, where Catholics make up about half of the population and where ...
The attack occurred overnight on Sunday in the village of Makugwe, in the Beni area of North Kivu province, said local civil society figure Roger Wangeve, who put the death ...
The DRC — along with the United States and several European countries — has repeatedly accused its smaller central African neighbour Rwanda of backing the M23, but the latter denies ...
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