No peace deal will be signed this Sunday, June 15, in Washington, when Rwandan and Congolese officials are scheduled to meet looking to follow up on earlier efforts geared at resolving the conflict in ...

On June 11, 2025, the Daily Maverick, a South African newspaper published an article that may have been about white rhinos—but what it actually revealed was something far more toxic: the persistence ...

For the first time since rebel forces took control of Goma, the head of the United Nations peacekeeping mission in Congo, Bintou Keita, met face-to-face with the leaders of M23 rebels on Friday in the ...

Corneille Nangaa, the leader of Alliance Fleuve Congo (AFC/M23) movement, on Friday, June 13, held talks with Bintou Keita, Special Representative of the Secretary-General of the United Nations and ...

The head of the U.N. peacekeeping mission in Congo met with leaders of the Rwanda-backed rebel group M23 on Friday in Goma, ...

The two singled out President Ruto’s comments on the Sahrawi issue, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) crisis, his ...

North and South Kivu, along with Katanga further to the south, are home to vast amounts of critical minerals, including gold, diamonds, coltan, cobalt and the 17 so-called rare earth minerals needed ...

There are times when words from the world’s most powerful table—the UN Security Council—do not merely fail to solve a problem; they actively entrench it. Such is the case with Resolution 2773 (2025), ...

Since taking over from Uhuru Kenyatta on September 13, 2022, President William Ruto has turned Kenya’s foreign policy on its ...

Ongoing differences between Rwanda and the DRC are now playing out in regional and international organisations.

The United States is promoting a deal that would require Rwanda to pull troops from eastern Congo before the two sides sign a ...

This latest development underscores the bad blood the two neighbours despite several ongoing arbitration processes ...