On Jan. 28, the Rwanda-backed rebel group M23 captured Goma, capital city of the Democratic Republic of Congo’s mineral-rich North Kivu province. The fall of Goma marks a shocking chapter in a ...

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How politics in Kinshasa combines with international power politics to undermine regional efforts for peace in DRC THE LAST ...

Rwanda is unfairly blamed for the crisis in eastern DR Congo, which is a result of internal governance failures and threats on Rwandan leaders, for which the Congolese government should be held ...

As civilians in Goma once again flee chaos, leaders fail to take responsibility for the crisis.

The Fed left the rate unchanged as expected, while the ECB slashed the interest rate by 0.25 percentage point, " Alexander Shepelev noted ...

The European Union and France have condemned recent attacks on foreign embassies in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), ...

The Democratic Republic of the Congo has a wealth of natural resources, including metals and minerals such as gold, tin and coltan, essential for manufacturing mobile phones and batteries for electric ...

Once again, the eastern Congolese city of Goma has fallen to the Rwanda-backed M23 rebel group. The mayhem is certainly real; ...

He says years of delays and numerous changes of partners are "normal" for a major infrastructure project like the Inga Dam.

The ECB cut interest rates four times last year with the key rate now at 3.15 per cent, down from a high of 4.5 per cent. A bumper 0.5 percentage point Fed rate cut arrived in September ...

M23 was formed by Congolese soldiers and politicians who defected due to Kinshasa's failure to honor ... Because at this point, Congolese leaders are less concerned with governing and more focused ...