M23’s advances highlight Rwanda’s role in the Democratic Republic of Congo, and the risk of an escalating regionalised ...

Since Goma fell, I’ve lived in fear. I don’t dare leave my house.” These are the words of Justin Shamutwa Masumbuko, general ...

Thirteen years after the first M23 crisis, these new clashes bear out the enduring instability in the Great Lakes region. Mutual accusations between the DRC and Rwanda persist. Kigali accuses ...

Taking over Goma would mean the rebels would be controlling the entire province of North Kivu, one of the DRC's richest and most critical regions, and one which shares a border with Rwanda. Defending ...

But will it actually work? Our past and ongoing research on army integration and demobilisation in eastern DRC casts doubt on the plan, for three reasons. The first risk is that armed groups will ...

A rampaging rebel group has claimed the capture of another mining town in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), a little over a week after it took control of the region’s ...

At the same time everyone in the region has ... the practical route map the SADC-EAC Summit laid down needs to be applied to whole conflict in all its forms in the eastern DRC, to give the people ...

M23 fighters on Friday advanced further on several fronts in DR Congo's volatile east as international pressure mounted on ...

This comes after the reportedly Rwandan-backed rebels said over the weekend they had taken control of Goma, the biggest city in the region. Rose Tchwenko, the DRC’s country director for Mercy ...

Thousands of displaced civilians are on the move again in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. Rebels have reportedly taken the airport outside Bukavu and are beginning to threaten the town ...

Scores of children caught up in the conflict in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) have been subjected ... as the conflict in the mineral-rich region shows no signs of abating ...