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Rwanda's Minister of Foreign Affairs Olivier Nduhungirehe shakes hands with his DR Congo counterpart, Therese Kayikwamba Wagner, after signing a peace agreement, as US Secretary of State Marco Rubio looks on in Washington, DC, on June 27. Courtesy

Thirty years later, the FDLR survives: What do the DRC and the West really want?

Monday, September 07, 2026
One of the residential houses damaged by bombs fired into Rwandan territory in Rubavu District from DR Congo on Monday, January 27, 2025. Photo by Germain Nsanzimana.
Editorial

There can be no lasting peace in DR Congo while FDLR remains

Thursday, September 03, 2026
President Kagame meets with James Swan, Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General and Head of MONUSCO, and Huang Xia, Special Envoy of the UN Secretary-General for the Great Lakes Region.
Africa

Kagame discusses DR Congo crisis with new head of MONUSCO

Wednesday, September 02, 2026
MONUSCO boss James Swan meets with Minister of Foreign Affairs Olivier Nduhungirehe in Kigali on Tuesday, September 1. Courtesy
Rwanda

Nduhungirehe discusses DR Congo crisis with MONUSCO chief

Wednesday, September 02, 2026
Burundi President Evariste Ndayishimiye and his DR Congo counterpart Felix Tshisekedi during an interaction. FILE

The Great Lakes hold-up: The FDLR’s capture of Kinshasa and Bujumbura and the regional threat it poses

Monday, August 31, 2026
President Paul Kagame addresses journalists during the press conference on Monday, August 24. Photo by Olivier Mugwiza.
Rwanda

Kagame: Kinshasa-FDLR ‘cantonment’ deal exposes their collaboration

Monday, August 24, 2026
Members of the genocidial group FDLR in eastern DR Congo. Courtesy
Editorial

The FDLR: three decades of reinvention and regional insecurity

Monday, August 24, 2026
Fayulu during 2024 presidential campaigns in DR Congo. 
Africa

Banyamulenge: Fayulu's remarks are ‘politically irresponsible’

Saturday, August 22, 2026
Heads of delegations from AFC-M23 and the government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo sign agreements during the past talks held in Montreux, Switzerland on Friday, April 17. Courtesy.
Africa

DR Congo: Negotiators on retreat to iron out sticking issues in peace talks

Thursday, August 20, 2026
President Paul Kagame and his Congolese counterpart Felix Tshisekedi signed the Washington Accords on Thursday, December 4,2025, witnessed by US President Donald Trump. Photo by Village Urugwiro

When DR Congo decided to destroy Washington Accords

Tuesday, August 18, 2026
President Évariste Ndayishimiye currently holds the rotating chairmanship of the African Union for 2026. Courtesy

When rhetoric tests responsibility: Burundi, Rwanda and the burden of African Union leadership

Tuesday, August 18, 2026
Mourners during the commemoration of victims of Gatumba on August 13, 2004, when armed attackers stormed the UNHCR transit camp, killing 166 Banyamulenge refugees. Courtesy
Africa

Experts on how Burundi, DR Congo ignored Gatumba massacre

Sunday, August 16, 2026