Nearly 3,000 people were killed over the last week as rebels captured a key city in one of the deadliest battles in the ...

The DR Congo army and M23 on Friday clashed outside Goma as the UK, US and France urged citizens to leave the main city in DR ...

Map of territory controlled by the M23 rebels in the Democratic Republic of Congo, as of January 23 ... this year and could spark a regional war. "The number of displacements is now over 400,000 ...

Members of the Congolese Red Cross collect bodies of alleged members of the Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of Congo (FARDC) in Goma, Congo, Thursday, Jan. 30, 2025 ...

Thirty years after the violence, a related border conflict escalates, with control of mineral wealth at stake.

Burundi troops in Congo ... war. Burundi has had soldiers in eastern Congo for years, initially to hunt down Burundian rebels there but, more recently, supporting Kinshasa's army in battles ...

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Plus, Roland Oliphant explains why Congo’s foreign minister has accused its neighbour Rwanda of declaring war and the role ‘blood minerals’ are playing in the conflict. Battle Lines, a podcast from ...

Burundi has had soldiers in eastern Congo for years, initially to hunt down Burundian rebels there but, more recently, supporting Kinshasa's army in battles ... 1993-2005 civil war, which killed ...