East African Community ministers of foreign affairs and defence on Saturday, March 15, underscored the urgent need for a unified regional approach, reinforcing the role of strategic partnerships in ...

Rwanda appears to be betting on its reputation as a key security partner and sports destination to minimize any backlash to its involvement in the war.

Congo’s army has appeared too weak and dysfunctional to stop a militia that has swept through the eastern part of the country ...

For decades, the Congo Basin was largely invisible to climate science. Now, a new generation of Central African researchers ...

Source: AEI Critical Threats Project. Latest area of control ... a conflict that has simmered in Democratic Republic of Congo’s eastern borderlands for years is evolving into a wider regional ...

Democratic Republic of Congo President Felix Tshisekedi has long ruled out dialogue with the Rwanda-backed M23 rebels ...

Despite the risks from deadly armed groups roaming the countryside, Judith Kahindo walks alone every day to her isolated ...

A rapidly spreading unknown illness has killed 53 people in Congo, with preliminary investigations linking the outbreak to children who ate bat meat in January.

The question of peace between M23 and the Congolese government is also about a truce between Kigali and Kinshasa. Both have ...

President Paul Kagame has reiterated that Rwanda’s problem has always been the security threats springing from neighbouring DR Congo, and not minerals. Kigali has maintained defensive measures along ...

The United States joined Pakistan, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Chile, Slovakia and 37 other countries on the ...

On paper, Congo appears well placed to deal with threats coming from its much smaller neighbor. Experts estimate it has between 100,000 and 200,000 troops, far more than Rwanda or M23. But the ...