Butembo also once boasted an industrial-scale factory, the Cobeki soft drinks maker. But it went out of business in the transitional period between DRC's second civil war [1998-2003] and its 2006 ...

On this occasion, the 1st Information and Communication Support Center of the Ground Forces spoke with Oleksandr Ivanko, a ...

The warring parties have each imposed their own taxes at the borders they control, cutting off residents from the rest of the ...

which also controls border posts between the DRC and neighbouring Rwanda. By the same token, they act as yet another brake on the regional economy. In Butembo, Esther Masika, manager of a food ...

Virtually all banks are closed. Currency shortages abound. Staples prices have jumped. Now residents are finding themselves subject to new taxes imposed by the insurgents, who need money to finance ...

Goma - Hundreds of ethnic Congolese Tutsis and Hutus demonstrated in DRC's largest eastern city on Monday, saying they fear persecution from a stepped-up DRC troop deployment to the east. The Tutsis ...

Senior American Advisor Massad Boulos addresses a press conference at the U.S. Embassy in Kigali, Rwanda on April 8, 2025[AFP]. The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Rwanda have submitted a ...

Displaced people are seen at the Nzulo port, near Goma, North Kivu province, eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), on Jan 23, 2025. [Photo/Xinhua] LUANDA - Angola's presidency said on ...

Picture: AFP The DA has questioned South Africa’s intervention in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) after reports that the United States government is on course to broker a peace deal ...

Qatar-mediated talks aim to end violence in east Congo UN reports 30,000 displaced in clashes since Friday US also pushing for peace along with economic deals DOHA, May 6 (Reuters) - The ...

At a tense ceremony in Washington on 25 April, representatives from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Rwanda committed to working towards a peace agreement to end ongoing violence in the ...

South African troops withdrawing from the conflict in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo have begun assembling in Tanzania and most should return home this month, the defence chief said on ...