DR Congo has also been subject to decades of fighting between government troops and rebels in the eastern part of the country, which escalated in late January when the Rwandan-backed M23 rebel ...

Kinshasa, 8 May 2025. The ICRC president meets with the Prime Minister of the DRC, Judith Suminwa Tuluka, during her first official visit to the country. Mirjana Spoljaric was accompanied by Patrick ...

The violence is centered in Congo’s eastern provinces, near the Rwandan border. Panzi sits on the outskirts of Bukavu, a city of more than 1 million people and the provincial capital of South Kivu.

Rwanda’s foreign minister on Tuesday said a final peace deal to end a crisis gripping the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo would be signed in mid-June in Washington.

DOHA - The U.S. is pushing Congo and Rwanda to sign a peace accord at the White House in about two months, accompanied by bilateral mineral deals that would bring billions of dollars of Western ...

Kieran Burke with AP and Reuters 05/01/2025 Congo's Senate has been asked to revoke the former president's immunity from prosecution to face charges of supporting an insurgency in the east.

(Reuters) - Congo and Rwanda vowed to come up with a draft peace deal by May 2 and refrain from providing military support to armed groups, according to an agreement signed in Washington on Friday ...

The government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Rwanda-backed M23 rebels have agreed to pause fighting as they work towards a broader peace deal, according to their joint statement.

Newspapers and activists regularly proclaimed eastern Congo “the rape capital of the world.” Now, Chantal feels forgotten. “People talk about [rape], but they are not heard,” she says.

Heavy downpours flooded and submerged parts of Kinshasa, the Democratic Republic of Congo’s capital, over the weekend, destroying roads, inundating homes and killing about 30 people, according ...

Democratic Republic of Congo's President Felix Tshisekedi has met U.S. lawmaker Ronny Jackson to discuss fighting in the east of the country and opportunities for U.S. investment, Congo's ...

Access Bank entered the DRC in 2009 through the acquisition of Banque Privée du Congo (BPC), which is now known as Access Bank (RD Congo).