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17 hours ago News Duration 6:57 Officials from Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo signed a peace agreement in the White House on Friday, aiming to end a complex and long-running conflict. The peace deal, brokered by the U.S., includes American access to critical minerals in the DR Congo. …

Rwanda said on Tuesday that Canada’s position on the conflict in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo was “shameful,” adding that measures announced by Ottawa against Kigali would not solve the conflict. Late on Monday, Canada announced it had suspended the issuance of permits for the export of controlled goods and …

Some 7,000 people have died since January in fighting in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, the prime minister of the DRC told a high-level meeting of the Human Rights Council in Geneva on Monday, with combatants and civilians among the dead. About 3,000 deaths were reported in Goma, Judith …

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WARNING: This story contains an image that may be disturbing to some readers. Rwandan-backed M23 rebels have seized control of a mining town in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo’s South Kivu province, eight sources said on Wednesday, in an apparent violation of a unilateral ceasefire they declared this week. The …

Rwanda-backed rebels were expanding their presence in eastern Congo after capturing Goma, the region’s major city, the UN said Friday, while also expressing concerns over executions it learned were carried out by the rebels in recent days after a major escalation of their yearslong rebellion. Congolese forces, meanwhile, repelled the rebels …

At least 773 people were killed in eastern Congo’s largest city of Goma and its vicinity this week amid fighting with Rwanda-backed rebels who captured the city in a major escalation of a decadelong conflict, Congolese authorities said Saturday. The rebels’ advance into other areas was slowed by a weakened …

Congo has severed all diplomatic ties with Rwanda and South Africa, and said on Saturday that nine of its peacekeepers had been killed amid a surge in fighting with Rwanda-backed rebels in mineral-rich eastern Congo. The three-year M23 insurgency in eastern Congo has intensified in January with the rebels seizing …

Rwanda-backed rebels claimed they captured eastern Congo’s largest city, Goma, early Monday, as the United Nations described a “mass panic” among its two million people and Congo’s government said the rebel advance was a “declaration of war.” The M23 rebels announced the city’s capture in a statement minutes before a …

The governor of eastern Congo’s North Kivu province has died from injuries sustained during fighting on the front line, authorities said Friday, as M23 rebels closed in on the provincial capital.  M23 made significant territorial gains in recent weeks, encircling Goma, which has around two million people and is a …