Responsible Statecraft on MSN6d
M23 & Rwanda are trying to redraw the map and it's all about to blow
Will offers of resource wealth to the US and other powers help bring militia violence to heel in the Democratic Republic of ...
The Africa Report5d
Eastern DRC: The impossible death toll of the battle for Goma
More than a month after rebels captured Goma, the capital of DRC’s North Kivu province, humanitarian workers dispute the UN’s ...
Mongabay News on MSN10d
The environmental toll of the M23 conflict in eastern DRC (Analysis)
By Fergus O’Leary SimpsonJoel MasselinkLara Collart The resurgence of the M23 (March 23 movement) rebel group has once again ...
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 ...
Le Monde.fr18d
Inside the DRC's rebel-held areas: 'I don't know if there's peace, but at least there are no more bombs'
The capture of this town, located at the other end of Lake Kivu from Goma, took place virtually without fighting, confirming the rout of the DRC's ghostly armed forces, known as FARDC, their ...
BBC27d
DRC conflict: What's happening in Goma?
Our correspondent is in the city of Goma, three weeks after it fell to M23 rebels. Show more In the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, M23 rebel fighters are continuing their advance amid a ...
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.
Le Monde.fr28d
After Goma, DRC's Bukavu falls under M23 rebels' control
Two days earlier, the deputy head of the United Nations mission in the DRC, Vivian van de Perre, had reported that some "2,000 bodies [had] been recovered from the streets of Goma [in the] last ...