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 ...

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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 ...

Now, it is up to the international community "to do everything possible to prevent the conflict from spreading to the region", the president said. However, Rwanda's Defence Minister, Juvenal ...

"The crisis in eastern DRC is a challenge for all of us in the region. Rwanda has been heavily affected with devastating human, political and economic consequences." Burundi's President Evariste ...

In other regions under M23 control in South Kivu, such as Minova, the militia has been occupying schools and hospitals, and forcing IDPs out of camps. DRC officials report that at least 165 women ...

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 ...

In a new study, Northwestern Medicine scientists have, for the first time, identified specific brain regions outside the frontal lobe -- in the temporal and parietal cortices -- involved in the ...

The M23 is the most prominent of more than 100 armed groups vying for control of eastern DRC’s trillions of dollars ... more than 6 million people in the region, creating one of the world ...

First, it means that a sizeable and strategically important border province of the DRC is now in rebel hands. North Kivu is an active volcanic region that is rich in various minerals such as ...

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 ...