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Mass burials begin in Goma following deadly M23 insurgency
The process of burying victims killed during the March 23 Movement (M23) rebel insurgency in Goma, North Kivu province, ...
DRC humanitarian crisis deepens despite ceasefire
THE humanitarian crisis in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) remains tense despite a ceasefire, as aid organisations ...
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Fire And Fury: The Intense Fight For DRC’s Goma
Advertisement Goma, which fell to M23 fighters and the Rwandan military last week, has become a symbol of the conflict that has ripped … Continue reading Fire And Fury: The Intense Fight For DRC’s Gom ...
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What the UN Is Doing in DR Congo
The current phase of fighting erupted in late January in the mineral-rich eastern region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo between government forces and the armed M23 group.Despite security ...
Why Have UN Peacekeepers Been In DR Congo For 65 Years?
DRC gained independence in 1960 and since then the UN has played a crucial role in the country, notably through the deployment of three peacekeeping missions. The UN intervened for the first time in ...
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Rwandan-backed group declares ceasefire in Congo’s war-torn east
With fears of a regional conflagration spiraling, the Kenyan presidency announced on Monday that Congolese President Felix ...
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Nearly 130 mpox patients leave quarantine facilities amid hostilities in eastern DRC
Apart from that, the province’s capital city of Goma has problems with medicine supplies, access to drinking water and electricity ...
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Joint Letter Calling for an Independent Mandate to Investigate Rights Violations and Abuses by All Parties in Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo
We, the undersigned 75 Congolese, regional, and international human rights organizations, write to appeal to you to urgently work to establish, in the context of a special session of the UN Human ...
Rebels call for ceasefire in DR Congo after hundreds are killed in a week of fighting
A rebel group that claimed to have captured the city of Goma in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo last week has called for an immediate humanitarian ceasefire, after fighting with the Congolese ...
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Rebels declare ceasefire in eastern DR Congo from February 4
PRETORIA, February 3. /TASS/. The Congo River Alliance rebel coalition that includes the March 23 (M23) movement has declared a ceasefire in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo for ...
M23 rebels face Burundian forces in eastern Congo, heightening war fears
As Rwanda-backed M23 rebels in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo push south towards the city of Bukavu, they are likely to have to fight their way through thousands of troops from Burundi, ramping ...
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In DRC, a durable solution means addressing justice
The South African National Defence Force confirmed on 27 January that three more soldiers had been killed in fighting near ...