World
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Africa
11/27/2022 6:43:56 PM
Forty Burundian rebels have been killed in a joint offensive by the militaries of Democratic Republic of Congo and Burundi in eastern DRC, a Congolese army spokesman said on Sunday.
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World
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Africa
11/26/2022 8:49:06 PM
Militia fighters killed a lieutenant colonel and another soldier in the Democratic Republic of Congo's deeply troubled east, witnesses and local officials said Saturday.
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World
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Africa
11/26/2022 2:23:58 PM
The Democratic Republic of Congo will hold its next presidential polls on December 20, 2023, the country's electoral commission said Saturday.
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World
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Africa
11/25/2022 7:01:15 PM
M23 rebels were still fighting and advancing the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo on Friday, civilian and military sources said, barely hours before a ceasefire was to come into force.
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World
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Africa
11/24/2022 1:32:39 PM
Leaders called for a cease-fire to take effect later this week in eastern Congo following a summit in Angola on Wednesday that included Congo's president and Rwanda's foreign minister but not the M23 rebels whose rapid advance has sharply escalated tensions between the two countries.
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World
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Africa
11/19/2022 10:35:34 PM
Two days of flooding and landslides in eastern DR Congo have claimed more than 20 lives, officials and police said Saturday.
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World
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Africa
11/12/2022 9:12:54 PM
Kenyan soldiers landed in the city of Goma in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo on Saturday, as part of a regional military operation targeting rebels in the conflict-torn region.
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World
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Africa
11/8/2022 3:54:39 PM
Congolese fighter jets began bombing rebel targets Tuesday in the country's embattled east, escalating its fight against the M23 group that the government alleges has been advancing with help from neighboring Rwanda.
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World
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Africa
11/7/2022 7:36:41 PM
DR Congo's military has deployed two war planes against M23 rebels in the conflict-torn east, provoking a rebuke Monday from neighboring Rwanda after one jet entered the country's airspace.
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World
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Africa
10/30/2022 9:46:23 PM
The African Union on Sunday said it was extremely concerned by the deteriorating security situation in the troubled eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, where rebels have made fresh gains.
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World
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Africa
10/29/2022 2:54:41 PM
The UN peacekeeping mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo on Saturday announced an increase in its "troop alert level" following deadly clashes with rebels in the east.
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
10/5/2022 11:38:58 AM
Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry reasserted to Christophe Lutundula, the foreign minister of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Egypt’s firm stand on reaching a legally binding agreement based on international laws between Egypt, Sudan and Ethiopia in the dispute over the operation and filing of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD).
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COP27
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Climate change
10/3/2022 10:40:42 PM
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Monday urged the world to act at the upcoming pre-COP27 climate talks in DR Congo against what he called "a life-or-death struggle for our own safety today and our survival tomorrow."
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COP27
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Climate change
10/2/2022 11:40:21 AM
Sameh Shoukry, Egypt’s foreign minister and president-designate of the 2022 UN Climate Change Conference (COP27), headed on Sunday to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) to attend the first preparatory meeting for the conference (pre-COP27 meetings).
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COP27
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Focus
9/26/2022 2:13:58 PM
Climate activists protested in the Democratic Republic of Congo's capital Kinshasa on Friday ahead of a climate summit in the city next month.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Opinion
9/19/2022 5:20:13 PM
Ethiopia is set on monopolising all the water sources emanating from its territory and of attempting to deceive the Nile Basin countries about its true intentions.
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World
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Region
9/15/2022 9:58:47 PM
Pope Francis is studying a possible visit to Bahrain in November and said Thursday he is looking to reschedule his trip to South Sudan and Congo for February.
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World
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Africa
8/28/2022 1:57:56 PM
Eighteen people were killed in clashes between two communities in western Democratic Republic of Congo earlier this month, according to a government report seen by AFP Sunday.
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World
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Africa
8/11/2022 11:12:45 AM
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken holds talks with Rwandan President Paul Kagame on Thursday, facing calls from campaigners to pressure Kigali over its human rights record and alleged support of rebels in the neighbouring Democratic of Congo.
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World
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Africa
8/9/2022 9:54:54 PM
US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken’s whirlwind visit to three African countries is the second in less than 12 months, as he visited key US regional partners Senegal, Kenya and Nigeria in November 2021.
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