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World
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Africa
12/22/2022 6:16:00 PM
Fresh clashes between the M23 group and a rival militia erupted on Thursday in eastern DR Congo, sources said, breaking days of uneasy calm in the volatile region.
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World
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Africa
12/18/2022 11:09:37 PM
Kavira Mathe was making dinner for her two sons when bullets began flying. Eastern Congo's M23 rebels had attacked her village, killing scores of civilians. She and others fled for their lives, she said.
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World
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Africa
12/17/2022 1:37:34 PM
More than 160 people have died in the worst floods to batter DR Congo's capital Kinshasa in years, UN officials estimated Friday, citing authorities.
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
12/14/2022 2:03:55 PM
Egypt extended deep condolences on Wednesday to the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) over flood and landslides that occurred in the capital Kinshasa claiming many lives, a statement by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said.
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World
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Africa
12/14/2022 10:00:00 AM
More than 120 people were killed Tuesday as the worst floods in years battered DR Congo's capital Kinshasa following an all-night downpour, authorities said in a provisional assessment.
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World
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Africa
12/10/2022 12:55:29 PM
In a displacement camp in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, Eric, Samuel, Tuyisenge and Florence recounted walking for miles to flee a horrific rebel attack on their village.
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World
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Africa
12/8/2022 2:34:49 PM
M23 rebels last month massacred at least 131 civilians in eastern DR Congo and committed more than two dozen rapes, according to a preliminary probe into the killings, the UN mission in the country said.
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World
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Africa
12/6/2022 5:47:34 PM
The Democratic Republic of Congo's government will hold its next round of peace talks with rebels under the aegis of the East African Community in January in the eastern DRC, the seven-nation bloc announced Tuesday.
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World
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Africa
12/6/2022 11:44:18 AM
Around 300 people died in an attack on villagers in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo last week blamed on the M23 rebel group, government minister Julien Paluku said on Monday.
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World
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Africa
12/3/2022 3:09:54 PM
Three days of national mourning began in the DR Congo on Saturday after the alleged massacre of civilians in the country's east, with the government now giving a death toll of "more than 100".
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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
11/19/2022 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
11/7/2022 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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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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