As the crisis in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo reaches a critical juncture, pressure is mounting on the African ...

resolved to meet with its East African counterpart — the East Africa Community — about the matter. Elias Magosi, executive secretary of the 16-nation SADC, would engage with “state and ...

If the collapse of EAC, and now ECOWAS, teaches us anything, it is that the greatest risk ...

The East African Community (EAC) and the Southern African Development Community (SADC) have agreed to sit down on the table to discuss the way forward on the DR Congo conflict. The two blocs have ...

Earlier, Congolese officials declined to engage with Rwandan President Paul Kagame during an East African Community summit, citing allegations that Rwanda supports M23 rebels. The extraordinary ...

Heads of state of eight-member East African Community regional block on Wednesday called for an immediate and unconditional ceasefire in eastern Congo, they said in a statement. They also called ...

Leaders of Eastern and Southern African regional blocs met for an unprecedented joint summit on Saturday to find a solution ...

AFRICAN leaders have called for an immediate and unconditional ceasefire in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), which will be enforced by army chiefs within five days.The Southern African ...

Rwanda has welcomed the joint East African Community (EAC) and Southern African Development Community (SADC) Summit slated for Saturday, stressing that the intervention is "long overdue." ...

NAIROBI, Feb 3 (Reuters) - The regional blocs of southern and eastern Africa will hold a joint summit in Tanzania's commercial capital Dar es Salaam on Feb 7-8 to discuss the conflict in eastern ...

However, the escalating conflict weighs heavily on the wider region. Days after the East African Community (EAC) met over the escalating conflict in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC ...