A joint statement from Congo's government and a coalition of insurgents in the country’s east including the M23 rebels says the two sides have agreed to work toward a truce following peace talks in ...

The truce, declared late on Wednesday after a round of negotiations in Qatar’s capital Doha, has raised hopes that the latest wave of violence, spurred by M23’s bloody January assault and capture of ...

Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo has been riven by conflict for three decades and the crisis has surged again in recent months with M23's new advance into the cities of Goma and Bukavu.

After decades of conflict between two African countries, President Trump and an adviser said the two sides, with U.S. help, ...

Once a bustling border hub nestled beneath the imposing silhouette of Mount Nyiragongo, the city of Goma in the eastern ...

Civilians caught in a devastating humanitarian crisis involving sexual and gender-based violence COMMENT | ANNIE BUNTING & ...

Last month, Congolese President Félix Tshisekedi and his Rwandan counterpart Paul Kagame also reaffirmed their commitment to an "unconditional" ceasefire ... Goma and Bukavu - eastern Congo's ...

ICRC Escorts Congo Troops From UN Base in Rebel-Held Goma to Kinshasa (Reuters ... up with a draft peace deal by May 2, following a ceasefire call. However, previous ceasefire calls have not ...

This follows reports in the Sunday papers that busses meant to transport soldiers from Goma back to South Africa failed to ...

An alliance of regional African leadership and oversight of resource extraction is essential to promote stability, write Faraan O Rahim and coauthors On 25 April 2025, foreign ministers from ...

Previous commitments to a ceasefire ... long conflict in eastern Congo escalated in January, when the M23 rebels advanced and seized the strategic city of Goma, followed by the town of Bukavu ...

As diplomatic efforts stall and ceasefires unravel, the people of the eastern DRC continue to live in the shadow of conflict. In Goma, where the lava of Nyiragongo once cooled into black rock, the ...