A solar minigrid in a Goma neighborhood where almost everyone lacked access to electricity just five years ago is offering a ...

The U.N. accuses Rwanda of supporting rebels who have taken over large swathes of the Democratic Republic of Congo - home to ...

The peace deal is due to be signed in Washington on Friday afternoon. It has been lauded by U.S. President Donald Trump as "a ...

The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has severed diplomatic ties with Rwanda, accusing it of fuelling the rebellion. At least 13 soldiers serving with peacekeeping forces in the DRC have been ...

This article by Victoire Katembo Mbut was first published on the news site Ici Congo on May 4, 2025. It was republished on Global Voices as part of a content partnership agreement. Since January 2025, ...

Demonstrators carry a poster honoring the Democratic Republic of Congo armed forces during a protest in Goma, June 15, 2022. Several thousand people demonstrated to denounce "Rwandan aggression." ...

Since 1996, conflict in eastern DRC has led to approximately six million deaths. The First Congo War (1996–1997) began in the wake of the 1994 Rwandan Genocide, during which ethnic Hutu ...

June 19 (UPI) -- Rwanda will sign a U.S.-Qatar-mediated peace agreement with neighboring Democratic Republic of the Congo, bringing an end to a decades-long armed conflict within days.

Congo hopes the U.S. will provide it with the security support needed to fight the rebels and possibly get them to withdraw from the key cities of Goma and Bukavu, and from the entire region where ...

Members of the M23 rebel group are seem after the opening ceremony in Goma, North Kivu province, in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, April 7, 2025. Arlette Bashizi/REUTERS ...

The Democratic Republic of the Congo and Rwanda will sign a peace agreement in Washington on June 27 that aims to ending fighting in eastern Congo, the two countries and the US state department said.

The head of the UN peacekeeping mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo has held talks with Rwanda-backed rebels about protecting civilians in areas under their control in the east. Bintou ...