As the Foreign Ministers of Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) signed a draft peace agreement in Washington this Friday, tensions and violence continue to grip eastern DRC. Since ...

Since January, the region has seen a new escalation of violence as the Rwanda-backed M23 armed group launched an offensive in ...

A new report from International Christian Concern (ICC) has revealed a disturbing rise in violence against Christians across ...

A U.N. spokesperson and a local representative say that militiamen killed 11 people during an attack on a camp for the displaced in Congo’s northeastern Ituri province.

The decades-long conflict in eastern Congo escalated in January, when the Rwanda-backed M23 rebels advanced and seized the ...

The recent meeting between Uganda's Chief of Defence Forces, General Muhoozi Kainerugaba, and Democratic Republic of Congo President Félix Tshisekedi in Kinshasa marks more than just a checkpoint on ...

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Uganda’s export earnings from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) rose to over $800 ...

Ugandan soldiers said they ‘occupied’ two DRC towns as the Rwandan-backed M23 continues to hold territory elsewhere.

Uganda has expanded its military presence in North Kivu and Ituri ostensibly to address worsening insecurity and contain M23. Although the troops have stalled the rebels’ northward advance, Uganda is ...

The provinces of North Kivu, South Kivu and Ituri have seen a recent surge in hostilities, as part of M23 rebels in the Kivus stated aim to take Kinshasa. In Ituri, ...

Kinshasa, its capital, is 1,500km from the provinces (South Kivu, North Kivu and Ituri) that border the other Great Lakes countries (Burundi, Rwanda and Uganda).

The conflict is largely confined to three eastern provinces: North Kivu, South Kivu, and Ituri. More than 120 armed groups are operating there, and at the risk of oversimplifying, ...