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1 day ago · On the morning of January 27, Rwandan-backed March 23 (M23) rebels swept into Goma, capital of the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo’s North Kivu province, seizing control of the city of one million. The development marks a dramatic escalation in the long-running crisis. The fighting has ...

22 hours ago · The United States of America is pulling its citizens out of Democratic Republic of Congo after a riotous mob attacked its embassy in Kinshasa on Tuesday. The embassy, in an alert to US citizens in the country, also announced that it was closed for business. "Due to an increase in violence throughout ...

Congolese and Rwandan armies have been firing at each other across their shared border in the eastern Congolese city of Goma. There has been intensified fighting around Goma, North Kivu's largest city, with increasing casualties and a wave of displaced civilians. Successive forces have come through ...

3 days ago · Kenyan President William Ruto, chair of the East African Community (EAC) Heads of State Summit, has called for an emergency meeting to address the escalating war in eastern Congo. “Noting the worsening humanitarian crisis, exacerbated by ongoing military actions, including the closure of airspace ...

2 days ago · The president said that the retreat recommended that “a high-level panel interrogate our peace and security infrastructure, including the envoys across the continent, the infrastructure around the Africa Union Commission, the Peace and Security Fund, and also the effects of Resolution, 29, 17, that now makes it possible for African-led peace efforts to be funded by the United Nations with ...

Jan 18, 2025 · A placard, rose flower petals and a steel chain lay on the ground abandoned after riot police officers detained protesters demonstrating against a wave of unexplained abductions of government critics, along the Aga Khan walk in downtown Nairobi, Kenya December 30, 2024. East African countries have ...

Dec 22, 2024 · “Extreme weather and climate change, now more severe and frequent, are the primary drivers of food insecurity in the region. The agriculture and livestock sector is dominated by rain-fed agriculture and the changing climate disproportionately affects the vulnerable groups,” the report said, but also blamed protracted armed …

Oct 26, 2024 · The Democratic Republic of Congo is the 8th most declined country in overall governance on the continent. According to the 2024 IIAG report, at the sub-category level, DRC registered declines in 12 out of 16 sub-categories, the most severe of which recorded in Security & Safety (-19.5), and the second in Participation (-7.4).