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Congo is too big for Rwanda to carry on its back, says Kagame
President Paul Kagame has called for accountability, truth, and effective governance to find a lasting solution to the escalating security situation in eastern DR Congo. Delivering his remarks at the ...
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Kagame to AU leaders: Rwanda has nothing to do with DR Congo problems
President Paul Kagame has called for accountability, truth, and effective governance to find a lasting solution to the escalating security situation in eastern DR Congo. Delivering his remarks at the ...
European Parliament seeks freeze on EU aid to Rwanda over Congo conflict
The European Parliament urged the European Union on Thursday to freeze direct budget support for Rwanda until it breaks links ...
Dozens of runaway Congo soldiers face trial on violence charges
Congo authorities will put at least 75 soldiers on trial on Monday for fleeing the advance of Rwanda-backed M23 rebels into ...
The catastrophic conflict looming in the heart of Africa
Is it too late, asked Le Pays (Ouagadougou): have we "reached the point of no return" for another catastrophic conflict in ...
Human Rights Watch8d
In DRC, a Durable Solution Means Addressing Justice
The South African National Defence Force confirmed on 27 January that three more soldiers had been killed in fighting near ...
The Cipher Brief11d
Expert Q&A: What the M23 Rebels Want in the Congo Conflict
The Rwanda-backed M23 rebels, who stunned the world with their seizure of the major city of Goma in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo, declared a unilateral ceasefire in fighting with ...
Boise State Public Radio13d
Life in Goma, the Congolese city under a new occupation
A glimpse of life after the siege in the eastern Congolese city of Goma, as some semblance of a tenuous peace returns, as does the fear of reprisals.
The Observer14d
M23 rebels now want to capture DRC capital Kinshasa
Rwanda’s leader, Paul Kagame, said he spoke with Angola’s President Joao Lourenco — a mediator in the conflict who also met with Congo’s leader a day earlier — and both leaders committed to working ...
Times Union14d
As M23 rebel group advances in Congo, a new leader signals a shift in its identity
"This allows M23 to give itself a new, more diverse, Congolese face, as M23 has always been seen as a Rwanda-backed armed ...
The Washington Post14d
As M23 rebel group advances in Congo, a new leader signals a shift in its identity
as M23 has always been seen as a Rwanda-backed armed group defending Tutsi minorities,” said Moleka. The Washington-based Africa Center for Strategic Studies, in an analysis published Wednesday ...
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FACTSHEET: A short history of the conflict in the DRC and M23
Tutsi-rebel groups in the DRC ... which included a South African contingent, regained control of the area from M23, with another peace agreement signed in December 2013. M23 resumed the insurgency ...