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World
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Africa
6/29/2024 2:17:46 PM
Rwandan-backed M23 rebels have seized a strategic town in the Democratic Republic of Congo's volatile east, a local official told AFP on Saturday.
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
5/21/2024 9:02:31 PM
Egypt strongly condemned on Tuesday a failed coup attempt in Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).
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World
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Africa
2/17/2024 5:37:59 PM
Leaders at an African Union summit in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa on Saturday condemned Israel’s offensive in Gaza and called for its immediate end as they opened a two-day summit.
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World
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Africa
1/20/2024 6:31:56 PM
The president of the Democratic Republic of Congo, Felix Tshisekedi, was sworn in for a second five-year term on Saturday after sweeping elections that the opposition branded a sham while calling for protests.
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World
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Africa
12/31/2023 8:53:00 PM
DR Congo's President Felix Tshisekedi has won a second term in office with a landslide victory, according to provisional results announced Sunday, in a vote opposition leaders have dismissed as a "sham".
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World
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Africa
12/16/2023 5:51:19 PM
Kinshasa has summoned the Kenyan ambassador in the Democratic Republic of Congo, media reported, after a Congolese opposition figure in Nairobi announced he was creating a political-military alliance with M23 rebels and other armed groups.
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World
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Africa
12/13/2023 6:37:54 PM
Uganda's army announced on Wednesday the withdrawal of its soldiers from the war-torn eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) where they were serving in a regional security force.
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Sports
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Egyptian Football
11/22/2023 4:29:24 PM
Pyramids FC will be without two key players for their opening match of the African Champions League group stage against Mazembe of the DRC on Friday.
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World
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International
11/21/2023 3:57:28 PM
The presence of United Nations peacekeepers, whose shortcomings can frustrate local populations, is not a "magic wand" for conflict zones, said their leader Jean-Pierre Lacroix, who supports an expanded tool kit to protect civilians in increasingly complex territory.
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World
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Africa
9/30/2023 7:48:16 PM
The Democratic Republic of Congo is on track to see record numbers of children killed, maimed, kidnapped or sexually assaulted in 2023 for the third consecutive year, the UN said on Saturday.
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World
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Africa
7/16/2023 8:04:12 PM
At least 11 men were found dead in eastern DR Congo on Sunday, according to sources in Rutshuru territory who accused M23 rebels of killing them.
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World
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Africa
7/9/2023 12:28:14 PM
Angola and the Democratic Republic of Congo are pinning hopes for economic revival on the revamp of an iconic African railway connecting mineral-rich inland areas to the Atlantic Ocean.
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World
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Africa
7/1/2023 6:51:06 PM
Militants have killed at least 11 people in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, officials said on Saturday, in the latest attack to hit the turbulent region.
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World
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Africa
5/8/2023 4:58:01 PM
Nearly 400 villagers were killed in flooding and landslides brought by torrential rains in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), said Theo Ngwabije Kasi, the governor of South Kivu province, on Monday.
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World
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Africa
5/6/2023 5:01:35 PM
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Saturday urged African leaders to redouble efforts to bring peace to the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, where violent armed groups have terrorized civilians for decades.
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World
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Africa
3/4/2023 4:27:47 PM
Brussels said Saturday it was setting up a "humanitarian air bridge" to deliver aid to conflict-hit eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, as the visiting French president said all sides had given support to a ceasefire next week.
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
2/18/2023 10:16:58 PM
Egypt’s Minister of Irrigation and Water Resources Hani Sweilem and Vice-Prime Minister of Environment and Sustainable Development of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) Eve Bazaiba Masudi visited on Saturday the climate prediction centre in the Congolese capital, Kinshasa.
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World
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Africa
2/17/2023 5:46:58 PM
African leaders called on Friday for all armed groups to withdraw from occupied areas in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo by the end of next month, the regional EAC bloc said.
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World
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Africa
2/8/2023 10:47:46 PM
Peacekeepers killed eight civilians during an attack on a UN convoy in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, the military governor of North Kivu province said on Wednesday.
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World
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Africa
1/31/2023 6:36:01 PM
Massive crowds thronged for a glimpse of Pope Francis as he made his way through the streets of Kinshasa Tuesday, after arriving in DR Congo with a message of peace for a country ravaged by decades of conflict.
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