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M23 live updates as motorway closed after vehicle fire
The M23 is partially closed after a vehicle fire on the carriageway. Emergency service were called to the northbound ...
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Challenges facing the latest truce between Kinshasa and M23
On 23 April, delegations from Kinshasa and rebel group M23’s political affiliate, Alliance Fleuve Congo (AFC), declared their ...
Congo’s government and rebels say they are working toward a truce in the east
A joint statement from Congo's government and a coalition of insurgents in the country’s east including the M23 rebels says ...
Rubio hosts signing of peace framework between Rwanda, DR Congo
Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo have agreed to work toward a peace agreement by May 2 after escalating violence ...
New front in US-China rivalry opens, this time in Congo’s copper and cobalt mining heartland
DRC has offered US access to its vast mineral wealth as part of a broader plan to end violence in the country’s east, where ...
Investigators are increasingly using technology in conflict-related sexual assault cases
In the last two weeks of February, humanitarian agencies reported 895 cases of conflict-related rape as M23 rebels advanced through the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). According to a ...
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Joe Kabila walking himself to the ICC?
Mr Joseph Kabange Kabila, former president of the Democratic Republic of Congo seems to have crossed the Rubicon. He has cast ...