I experienced the fall of Goma. I had to leave my Congolese colleagues in a critical situation
A professor of global health was in Kivu when the fighting began to rage. She recounts what she and her colleagues ...
A tinderbox conflict in Congo is ready to explode
A conflict that has simmered in Democratic Republic of Congo’s eastern borderlands for years is set to erupt into a wider ...
Geopolitical Monitor2d
Rwanda and Congo Clash as Major War Brews in Central Africa
By taking Goma, the M23 and Rwanda crossed a Rubicon, as Kinshasa’s leaders cannot brook an all-out invasion of North and ...
Agence France-Presse on MSN2d
Families sent home to ruins of east DR Congo conflict
When the Banyene family were sent back to their home in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, all that had survived the ...
Foreign Affairs3d
How Far Will Rwanda Go in Congo?
Since January, however, the rapid conquest and occupation of a huge area of the Democratic Republic of Congo by Rwanda and ...
Why Congo’s Vast Army Is Struggling to Fight a Far Smaller Militia
The latest conflict in eastern Congo has exposed endemic weaknesses in the country’s military, long known for corruption, extortion and abuse.
The EastAfrican on MSN5d
Kinshasa lobbies against Rwanda, urges the West to tap vast minerals
DRC hopes opening its vast mine fields to the Western world will pave way to long lasting ...
It’s been a month since rebels seized an eastern Congo city. Goma residents say they are struggling
Rwanda-backed rebels captured a key eastern Congo city a month ago Friday. Residents in Goma say they are struggling on ...