M23 rebels are marching across eastern DRC: the interests driving players in the conflict
M23’s advances highlight Rwanda’s role in the Democratic Republic of Congo, and the risk of an escalating regionalised ...
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M23 Rebels Take Bukavu, Control DRC's Border With Rwanda
Rwanda-backed M23 rebels have taken Democratic Republic of Congo's strategic city of Bukavu in the country's mineral-rich ...
Burundi troops withdraw in eastern Congo as M23 rebels expand reach, sources say
Burundi is withdrawing its forces from eastern Democratic Republic of Congo where they had been fighting against M23 rebels, ...
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DRC’s huge Green Corridor project lacks buy-in from forest communities
DRC has launched a plan for a green corridor at the world's largest protected area - but local people say they haven't been ...
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Southern Africa: Joint Summit Sets Highly Practical Route Map for Sorting Out Eastern DRC
This determination plus the practical route map the SADC-EAC Summit laid down needs to be applied to whole conflict in all its forms in the eastern DRC, to give the people who live in the two Kivu ...
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M23 rebels tell 200,000 to leave DRC refugee camp
Thousands of displaced civilians are on the move again in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. Rebels have reportedly taken the airport outside Bukavu and are beginning to threaten the town ...
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Scores of children raped by armed men in eastern DRC, UNICEF says
Scores of children caught up in the conflict in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) have been subjected to sexual violence including rape by armed men, according to the United Nations ...
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DRC has created a reserve force to fight the M23 – why this may backfire
But will it actually work? Our past and ongoing research on army integration and demobilisation in eastern DRC casts doubt on the plan, for three reasons. The first risk is that armed groups will ...
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What is happening in the DRC? | Explained
The crisis in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is back in the spotlight after the M23 militia, backed by eastern neighbour Rwanda, captured the mineral-rich city of Goma, which lies on the ...
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Nine SANDF members killed in DRC fighting off M23 rebels advancing on Goma
The soldiers' deaths on Thursday and Friday came amid a week-long visit this week by Minister of Defence and Military Veterans Angie Motshekga to the DRC to, among other things, "assess the ...
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Rwandan and Congolese leaders to meet over eastern DRC conflict
DRC - Rwanda's President Paul Kagame was due to meet his Congolese counterpart Felix Tshisekedi in Tanzania on Saturday as regional leaders convene in a bid to defuse the conflict in Democratic ...
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Rwanda-DRC tension: Have rebels taken control of Congolese city? What next?
The M23 rebel group has declared the key city of Goma under its control, signalling a major blow to the Congolese army and a serious escalation in the years-long conflict that has seen hundreds of ...