Nestled in the green hills of Masisi territory in Congo, the artisanal Rubaya mining site hums with the sound of generators, as hundreds of men labor by hand to extract …
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Lassy Mbouity, the prominent opposition figure and presidential hopeful for Congo’s March 2026 elections, was abducted last Sunday in Brazzaville by masked, armed men, just days after narrowly surviving an …
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Congolese authorities said Saturday they had suspended the party of former President Joseph Kabila. An Interior ministry statement justifying the ban on the People’s Party for Reconstruction and Democracy (PPRD) …
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Thousands of children have been subjected to rape and sexual violence in conflict-battered eastern Congo over the course of two months, the U.N. children’s agency said Friday, warning that existing …
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M23 rebels in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo have entered Bukavu, the eastern region’s second-largest city. Corneille Nangaa, leader of the Congo River Alliance which includes M23 …
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A popular Congolese musician, Delphin Katembo Vinywasiki, known as Delcat Idengo, has been killed while filming a music video in Goma, eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). His body was found …
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Fighting erupted Tuesday in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, three days after a call by African leaders for a ceasefire and a brief lull in the conflict. M23 fighters attacked …
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Zawadi Sifa has known nothing but displacement since 2012. Her latest refuge, the city of Goma, now faces the escalating threat of Rwanda-backed M23 rebels, who recently took control of …
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Red Cross workers in Goma continued mass burials on Tuesday, a week after Rwanda-backed M23 rebels seized control of the city. The Congolese interior minister, Jacquemin Shabani, stated that 2,000 …
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Angola’s President Joao Lourenco demanded the immediate withdrawal of Rwandan troops from Congolese territory on Wednesday amid fighting with the M23 rebels in Goma. Lourenco, who is the African Union …