A United Nations report says Rwanda provided critical support to the M23 rebels who seized key cities earlier this year in ...

President Paul Kagame has reiterated Rwanda’s commitment to self-reliance and national sovereignty, noting that the country cannot depend on the shifting interests of external powers. Speaking to ...

A new agreement between DRC and Rwanda seeks to end violence in eastern DRC, but many local residents remain uncertain about ...

In the Ndosho neighbourhood of Goma, in the Democratic Republic of Congo, solar power is doing more than keeping the lights on. It’s reviving businesses, improving security,and restoring hope, in a ...

A solar minigrid in a Goma neighborhood where almost everyone lacked access to electricity just five years ago is offering a ...

Rebels in Democratic Republic of Congo say they have taken key city of Goma The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has severed diplomatic ties with Rwanda, accusing it of fuelling the rebellion ...

What was meant to be a straightforward troop withdrawal from Goma has instead exposed a dangerous, unfolding crisis that highlights the potential military and diplomatic failures of South Africa ...

First, having to help repair Goma airport – which was damaged in the January fighting – presents one indefinite delay to the withdrawal of the SAMIDRC troops, though a SADC official sounded ...

Heshima winces in pain as he tries to shift his weight, sweat beading on his face. The slight 13-year-old sits on a bed in a tent in the grounds of an overcrowded hospital in Goma city in the east ...

GOMA, Democratic Republic of Congo — “I fled the fighting in Bweremana between the Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of Congo [FARDC] and the M23 armed group. I saw how a whole family ...

The withdrawal from Goma, he said, would be similar to the withdrawal of UN forces from Rwanda in 1994 during the genocide there. “It would not be an act of courage but one of cowardice,” he said.

The M23 and Rwandan forces controlling Goma should immediately ensure that civilians, including displaced people, are not unlawfully transferred from their displacement sites and are not denied ...