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Kinshasa's intentions are transparent. By equipping Wazalendo, the government cultivates a proxy force that can engage AFCM23 without implicating the FARDC. 

Kinshasa's deceptive strategy: The rise of Wazalendo and the urgency for M23 to act

Wednesday, April 16, 2025
Pictures of Goma taken by Peter Fahrenholtz, a former German ambassador to Rwanda, who toured the rebel-controlled city.
Africa

Veteran German diplomat says ‘no humanitarian crisis’ in AFC/M23-controlled Goma

Tuesday, April 15, 2025
SADC has contested claims by the Alliance Fleuve Congo (AFC) rebellion that its forces in DR Congo conducted “a series of joint military operations” in coordination with the Congolese armed forces.
Africa

SADC ‘firmly refutes allegations’ it engaged in joint FARDC-FDLR military operations in Goma against M23

Monday, April 14, 2025
M23 spokesperson Lawrence Kanyuka addresses journalists in Goma in February. Photo by Emmanuel Dushimimana
Africa

M23 asks SADC forces to withdraw after clashes in Goma

Sunday, April 13, 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.
Africa

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

Tuesday, April 08, 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
Africa

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
Africa

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.
Africa

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

Thursday, April 03, 2025
Rex Kazadi, a candidate for DR Congo’s December 2023 presidential elections, has joined the Alliance Fleuve Congo (AFCM23) rebellion’s ranks. Courtesy
Africa

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.
Africa

AFC/M23 rallies Congolese diaspora to join struggle

Monday, March 31, 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, in Goma on Friday, March 28

Unraveling the truth behind territorial integrity and media propaganda in DR Congo

Sunday, March 30, 2025
The Southern African Development Community (SADC) chairperson, Zimbabwe President Emmerson Mnangagwa.
Africa

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

Saturday, March 29, 2025