What is needed in the DRC is state-building, which the agreement does not address. If its dismal misadventures in Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya are anything to go by, the US is clueless when it comes to ...

U.S. funded treatments in the country have helped reduce deaths from HIV/AIDS to around 14,000 a year, from as high as 200,000.

A United Nations report says Rwanda provided critical support to the M23 rebels who seized key cities earlier this year in ...

NEW YORK, July 2 (Reuters) - Rwanda has exercised command and control over M23 rebels during their advance in eastern Congo, ...

The nation of Congo has been wracked by conflict with more than 100 armed groups, the most potent backed by Rwanda, that have ...

President Trump claims credit for the outcome. The main question now is how the treaty will be implemented as fighting still ...

WASHINGTON — The Democratic Republic of the Congo and Rwanda on Friday signed a peace deal facilitated by the U.S. to help ...

The decades-long conflict in eastern Congo escalated in January, when the Rwanda-backed M23 rebels advanced and seized the ...

Rwanda, the primary backer of the M23 armed group, supported its offensive in eastern DRC with three to four thousand ground troops. As Goma fell, thousands of locals —many of whom were already ...

Congolese M23 rebels are seen as they withdraw from the three antennes location in Kibumba, near Goma, North Kivu province of the Democratic Republic of Congo, December 23, 2022.

These villagers ended up living in 17 camps around the city of Goma, the capital of Congo’s North Kivu province, that would eventually swell to hold 400,000 to 500,000 people.