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Congo M23 gains to boost illicit mineral trade
Kuwait Times
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January 29, 2025
KINSHASA: A lightning advance in Congo’s mineral-rich eastern borderlands is set to boost the M23 rebellion’s illegal mining revenues, with analysts predicting a further surge in illicit trade in minerals including coltan and gold through...
The Magical Garbage Dump Spirits of the Congo
VICE
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April 1, 2025
In Kinshasa, the Congolese capital, groups of locals are turning mountainous piles of invasive trash into surreal costumes. The city is utterly plagued by garbage. As well as its own waste, it has to deal with tons more which is exported and...
Armed Groups Covet Cocoa In Eastern DR Congo
International Business Times
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March 15, 2025
Despite the risks from deadly armed groups roaming the countryside, Judith Kahindo walks alone every day to her isolated cocoa plantation in the war-torn North Kivu region of the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. North Kivu is primarily rich...
Can Congo’s Tshisekedi Ever Be Trusted? China and Rwanda Know Better
KT Press Rwanda
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March 14, 2025
1 President Tshisekedi on a visit in China in 2023 In the intricate web of global geopolitics and resource diplomacy, few nations have captured as much attention—and frustration—as the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Under President Félix...
AFRICA/CONGO RD - Appeal by Butembo university students: “Enough 30 years of war imposed on us to plunder our country's resources”
Fides
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March 18, 2025
Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) – “We have been living in war for more than 30 years. The war was born before our generation. It has produced misery, millions of internally displaced people, millions of dead” say the university students of Butembo-Beni,...
DRC's Goma on the brink as Rwanda-backed fighters take airpo...
Modern Ghana
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An armed group backed by Rwandan troops took control of the airport in the besieged DR Congo city of Goma on Tuesday, a security source said, dealing a major blow to Congolese forces and putting the regional capital on the brink of falling. The...
DRC’s Goma on the brink as Rwanda-backed fighters take airport
FOX 28 - Washington State
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January 28, 2025
An armed group backed by Rwandan troops took control of the airport in the besieged DR Congo city of Goma on Tuesday, a security source said, dealing a major blow to Congolese forces and putting the regional capital on the brink of falling. The...
Congo’s M23 rebels take control of Goma airport
FBC News
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January 28, 2025
[Source: Reuters] Rebels seized the airport of east Congo’s largest city Goma. Potentially cutting off the main route for aid to reach hundreds of thousands of displaced people, after capturing the city in an offensive that left dead bodies lying...
Why DR Congo's army struggles against the smaller M23
Deutsche Welle
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March 13, 2025
Since January, the M23 rebel movement has seized Goma and Bukavu — two key cities in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) — and since set up to govern for the long term in the regions under its control. The Congolese armed forces (FARDC)...
Why the DRC army is inferior to the much smaller M23
Deutsche Welle
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March 13, 2025
Since January, the M23 rebel movement has seized Goma and Bukavu — two key cities in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) — and since set up to govern for the long term in the regions under its control. The Congolese armed forces (FARDC)...
Congo hostilities fuelled by longstanding grievances. Your smartphone is also a factor
CBC/Radio-Canada
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January 27, 2025
An insurgency led by M23 rebels in eastern Congo has escalated and reached the city of Goma, worsening a humanitarian crisis in a region that suffered two devastating wars between 1996 and 2003. A rebel alliance led by the ethnic Tutsi-led militia...
DRC: Rwanda-backed rebels who seized Goma city declare unilateral ceasefire
Le Monde
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The Rwanda-backed rebels who seized eastern Congo's key city of Goma announced a unilateral ceasefire in the region on Monday, February 3, for humanitarian reasons, following calls for a safe corridor for aid and hundreds of thousands of displaced...
Conflict in Eastern Congo, With Mvemba Dizolele
Council on Foreign Relations
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LINDSAY: Welcome to The President's Inbox. I'm Jim Lindsay, the Mary and David Boies Distinguished Senior Fellow in U.S. Foreign Policy at the Council on Foreign Relations. This week's topic is the conflict in Eastern Congo. With me to discuss the...
War-Torn DR Congo Has a Deal for Trump: Kick Out Rebels, We Grant Access to Minerals
Zambian Observer
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March 20, 2025
War-Torn Congo Has a Deal for Trump: Kick Out Rebels, We Grant Access to Minerals U.S. president’s ally Erik Prince in separate talks to help embattled Congolese government The leader of a war-torn African nation has put a deal on the table for...
What’s at stake in the DR Congo conflict with M23 rebels and Rwanda?
Al Jazeera
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Redi Tlhabi dissects the continuing conflict in the DRC and its potential impact on regional stability. For several decades, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has grappled with political instability, armed conflict and humanitarian...
As two African nations sign a peace deal, Trump wants credit. But some fear peace may still elude them
CNN
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June 27, 2025
CNN — A peace agreement brokered by the White House to stem the bloodshed in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), where a militia allegedly backed by Rwanda occupies vast swaths of land, will be signed in Washington D.C. on Friday by...
Alliance Launches To Advance African-Led Health Research, Development And Innovation
Africa.com
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March 20, 2025
The African Health Research, Innovation and Development Alliance (AHRIDA), a trailblazing pan-African movement for advocacy in health research, development and innovation (RD&I), was launched during the Africa Health Agenda International...
Congo says 773 dead in week of fighting as military battles Rwanda-backed rebels
ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
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February 2, 2025
At least 773 people have been killed in and around eastern Congo's largest city of Goma in the past week during fighting between the military and Rwanda-backed M23 rebels, according to Congolese authorities. The rebels overran Goma on Tuesday...
Europe’s Shameful Role in the War in Congo
Jacobin
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The war in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo, on the border with Rwanda, has caused at least six million deaths in the last twenty-seven years, according to official figures. Some estimate that almost half of them are children. Village...
Uganda: the quiet power in the eastern DRC conflict
The Bryan Times - Ohio
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March 19, 2025
Uganda's role in eastern DR Congo has largely gone under the radar during recent violence but its complex approach aims to secure long-standing security and economic interests in the mineral-rich area, experts say. Backed by Rwanda, the M23 armed...