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M23 spokesperson Lawrence Kanyuka addresses journalists in Goma in February. Photo by Emmanuel Dushimimana

M23 asks SADC forces to withdraw after clashes in Goma

Sunday, April 13, 2025

The governor of DR Congo’s North Kivu Province, Erasto Musanga Bahati, has assured residents of continued peace and stability following a gunfire exchange on the night of April 11.

DR Congo crisis: North Kivu governor calms Goma residents after night gunfire

Saturday, April 12, 2025

AFC/M23 rebel fighters in Goma, the capital of North Kivu Province, in January. Photo by Emmanuel Dushimimana

AFC/M23 vows to neutralize threats against civilians in Walikale, Minembwe

Friday, April 11, 2025

South Sudan's main opposition party, Sudan People's Liberation Movement-in-Opposition (SPLM-IO), replaced First Vice-President Riek Machar. Internet

Faction of South Sudan opposition party ousts Riek Machar as leader

Wednesday, April 09, 2025

DR Congo's former President Joseph Kabila, on Tuesday, April 8, said he would return to the country after six years of silence and exile.

Kabila announces return to DR Congo

Wednesday, April 09, 2025

The RDF Army Chief of Staff (ACOS), Maj Gen Vincent Nyakarundi, is attending the African Land Forces Summit from 7 - 10 April 2025, in Accra, Ghana. Courtesy

RDF Army Chief of Staff in Ghana for African Land Forces Summit

Tuesday, April 08, 2025

Jean Laurent Gatera, a Rwandan researcher and writer in Peace Studies and Conflict Transformation, who analyzed the DR Congo crisis in his research work.

The unfinished colonial agenda: Rwandan researcher on Belgium’s influence in Rwanda and DR Congo

Tuesday, April 08, 2025

Ex-FDLR leader: DR Congo’s support for Genocidal militia still the biggest threat to peace

Monday, April 07, 2025

Hundreds of European mercenaries were granted passage through Rwanda after they surrendered to M23 rebels in eastern DR Congo in late January. Photo by Emmanuel Dushimimana

Romanian state inquiry says active-duty soldiers worked as mercenaries in DR Congo

Friday, April 04, 2025

AFC/M23 fighters in Bukavu in DR Congo. Photo by Olivier Mugwiza

AFC/M23 warns of retaliation if Congolese army attacks persist in Walikale

Friday, April 04, 2025

Joseph Stéphane Mukumadi, the former governor of Sankuru province, on Thursday, April 3.

DR Congo crisis: Former Sankuru province governor Joseph Mukumadi joins AFC/M23

Thursday, April 03, 2025

Amb. François Nkulikiyimfura, Rwanda’s envoy to France addresses the lower house of France’s parliament on Wednesday, April 2. Courtesy

FDLR a threat to Rwanda tolerated by the int’l community – Amb Nkulikiyimfura

Thursday, April 03, 2025

Kasunyu port (in the background, on Lake Kivu) is where supplies for the Burundian forces deployed across Minova came through, from Goma in eastern DR Congo. Photos by James Munyaneza

How Burundi troops, FDLR provoked M23’s march on Mubambiro, Goma

Wednesday, April 02, 2025

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AU dispatches Panel of Wise to South Sudan to help tackle instability

Tuesday, April 01, 2025

Rex Kazadi, a candidate for DR Congo’s December 2023 presidential elections, has joined the Alliance Fleuve Congo (AFCM23) rebellion’s ranks. Courtesy

DR Congo crisis: Former presidential candidate Rex Kazadi joins AFC/M23 – reports

Monday, March 31, 2025

Alliance fleuve Congo coordinator Corneille Nangaa gestures during a press conference in Goma, the capital of North Kivu Province, in January. Nangaa has appealed to the entire DR Congo diaspora to join the cause for liberating the country.

AFC/M23 rallies Congolese diaspora to join struggle

Monday, March 31, 2025

The Southern African Development Community (SADC) chairperson, Zimbabwe President Emmerson Mnangagwa.

President Mnangagwa confident dialogue will bring lasting peace, stability to eastern DR Congo

Saturday, March 29, 2025

Tanzania’s veteran politician and diplomat Ambassador Juma Volter Mwapachu, and former East African Community (EAC) Secretary General, passed away at the age of 82.

Former EAC Secretary-General Juma Mwapachu dies at 82

Saturday, March 29, 2025

Tanzania’s Maj Gen Ibrahim Michael Mhona and Alliance fleuve Congo military commander Maj Gen Sultani Makenga sign the agreement on SADC troops’ withdraw, on Friday, March 28, during their meeting at Serena Hotel, in Goma.

DR Congo crisis: M23 agrees to facilitate SADC troops withdraw

Friday, March 28, 2025

Olivier Nduhungirehe.

Rwanda's statement at the UNSC briefing on MONUSCO by Minister Olivier Nduhungirehe

Friday, March 28, 2025