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A deadlier strain of the Mpox virus is reported to be spreading in eastern DRC towns, nearly a year after it has been first found in the South Kivu, as doctors warn of a pandemic risk. As the virus was detected in 25 cases in the country’s restive east, there are fears it could spread […]
A military court in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has sentenced 25 soldiers to death in a one-day trial on Wednesday (3 July) after finding them guilty of fleeing the enemy, violating orders, dissipation of war munitions and theft, among other charges. The Congolese army has been fighting the Rwanda-backed M23 insurgency in the […]
The Tutsi-led rebels, known as M23, took control of Kanyabayonga, a strategic town in the east of the war-torn Democratic Republic of the Congo, where different armed groups operate. Kanyabayonga has been at the heart of clashes between DRC forces and the M23, since the latter took up arms in 2021. The M23 fighters were […]
Rwanda is “ready to fight” with the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) if necessary, its President Paul Kagame has declared in response to the accusations from Congolese President Félix Tshisekedi who had claimed that Rwanda was orchestrating genocide in eastern DRC. In a recent exclusive interview with FRANCE 24, Kagame discussed the growing tensions in […]
Three African countries — Burkina Faso, Cameroon and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) — top a list of the world’s most neglected crises for the second year in a row, according to a new report released by the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC). The NRC’s annual report on the world’s most neglected displacement crises says […]
The curtain fell on the new government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo after five months of delay that left the country in political uncertainties. Internal disagreements on positions in the cabinet delayed the announcement by president Felix Tshisekedi, who won the presidential vote in late 2023. The announcement of a cabinet […]
African governments need to develop robust strategies for the critical minerals sector amid global rush for the continent’s lithium and other strategically important rare metals, a recent research has found. Demand for lithium, for example, tripled from 2017 to 2022, while the critical minerals market doubled in five years, reaching US$320 billion in 2022, according […]
New questions have been raised over the recent alleged coup attempt in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) after a new video emerged, believed to show DRC soldiers executing men who took part in the failed coup, and also with the family of an US citizen, accused of being one of the plotters, although […]
Democratic Republic of Congo army foiled an attempted coup early Sunday (19 May), the country’s authorities have said, alleging that the coup plotters included some US and UK citizens, and they were led by a Congolese “naturalized American” named Christian Malanga. The streets of DRC’s capital, Kinshasa, appeared calm on Sunday after the army announced […]
Rwanda has hit back at the government of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) for making “baseless allegations” against Apple after Kinshasa earlier accused the tech giant of using illegally exported materials from the war-torn east of the West African country in its products. Lawyers representing the DRC government alleged last week that Apple was […]