More than 28,000 Congolese refugees have crossed into Uganda since January this year – a 500 per cent increase from the same time last year – with another 10,000 people expected to arrive by the end ...

GOMA, Democratic Republic of Congo - The leader of Rwandan-backed M23 rebels in eastern Congo said on Thursday that a call by Kinshasa and Kigali for an immediate ceasefire "doesn't concern us" as ...

Of these, only two heads of state surrendered to it their own compatriots who were accused: Congolese dictator Joseph Kabila and Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos. What infamy the dictator's son ...

The president of the Democratic Republic of Congo sent a letter to President Donald Trump offering a minerals deal in exchange for a security agreement with the U.S. that would remove violent ...

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Donald Trump has been offered a minerals-for-security deal by the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), providing access to materials needed by America’s tech industry in return for help to defeat ...

In a Feb. 8 letter to Trump, Félix Tshisekedi, president of the Democratic Republic of Congo, offered mining opportunities for the U.S. Sovereign Wealth Fund, an entity Trump had launched a few ...

After a rapid advance saw Rwanda-backed M23 rebels seize the two largest cities in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, uncertainty now looms over whether they will push on to the capital, and ...

Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. The crisis in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is getting worse.

It sounded like the plot of a disaster movie: a mysterious disease in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) appeared to jump from a bat to three children who ate it. They died within two days of ...

The talks came the day after M23 cancelled its planned direct negotiations with Congolese authorities. Those talks were meant to happen on Tuesday in Luanda, under the mediation of Angola’s President ...