Relations between Rwanda and South Africa have soured as security deteriorates in eastern DR Congo. As the violence escalates, both regional powers seem unable to build bridges - but why?

Steward Muhindo is an activist with LUCHA (Lutte pour le changement), a non-violent, non-partisan civic movement in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). He spoke to CIVICUS about the conflict ...

Goma, Democratic Republic of the Congo - 04, 2025 More than 2,000 bodies have been buried in the city of Goma, in the ...

We, the undersigned 75 Congolese, regional, and international human rights organizations, write to appeal to you to urgently work to establish, in the context of a special session of the UN Human ...

M23, an amorphous well-heeled and ambitious rebel group from the east of the DRC is the lead combatant within a coalition of ...

The M23 militant group has once again grabbed global attention by capturing Goma, a vital city in eastern Congo, sparking ...

PRETORIA, February 3. /TASS/. The Congo River Alliance rebel coalition that includes the March 23 (M23) movement has declared a ceasefire in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo for ...

Rwandan President Paul Kagame has told CNN he doesn’t know if his country’s troops are in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), where fighting between the M23 armed group and Congolese ...

Kenyan President William Ruto, the East African Community (EAC) chair, convened a virtual summit on 29 January to discuss the ...

Thirty years after the violence, a related border conflict escalates, with control of mineral wealth at stake.

M23 now controls nearly all of North Kivu and the province’s vast mineral wealth—including tin (cassiterite), tantalum ...

Qatar attempted to host peace talks between DRC and Rwanda to resolve the ongoing tensions between the two countries that ...