Army Urges Deserting Soldiers to Return as US Sanctions Rwanda | Firstpost Africa | N18G Amid the growing advances of the M23 rebels, DR Congo’s army is urging soldiers who fled to rejoin their units ...

Central to their campaign is the assertion that ethnic Tutsis living in DR Congo are being persecuted. Digging into the ...

The financial sanctions are expected to cripple the operations of the M23 with the US claiming the war in DR Congo was curtailing its investments in Rwanda, far cry from its recent foreign policy ...

The UN Security Council unanimously adopted a resolution on Friday that strongly condemned the ongoing offensive and advance ...

NAIROBI, February 21. /TASS/. The conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo cannot be resolved by means of sanctions, the Rwandan foreign ministry said in a statement, commenting on the US ...

The UN refugee agency, UNHCR, has launched a $40.4 million appeal to address the deepening humanitarian crisis in the ...

Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni on Friday denied his troops intended to fight Rwanda-backed forces in the eastern Democratic Republic ...

M23 fighters on Friday advanced further on several fronts in DR Congo's volatile east as international pressure mounted on ...

With people fleeing an escalating war between M23 rebels and Congolese government forces, the United Nations now fears a ...

Nairobi is considering evacuating nationals who can reach the consulate in Goma or the temporary offices in Congo Brazzaville ...

M23 forces have seized large swathes of the mineral-rich eastern DRC -- including the main cities of Goma and Bukavu -- in ...

A local source in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has confirmed that jihadists left the dead bodies of 70 ...