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The United States will host the presidents of the Congo and Rwanda as they sign a crucial peace agreement. The Congolese government announced on Friday that President Felix Tshisekedi is preparing for the trip. They described it as the culmination of months of diplomacy driven by U.S. President Donald Trump. Officials in Congo have repeatedly…
More than 200 health facilities in eastern Congo are running out of essential medicines as...
The death toll from rebel violence in eastern Congo has gone up, with officials confirming...
At least 60 people were brutally killed overnight in eastern Congo when suspected Islamic State–linked...
U.S. President Donald Trump has again claimed credit for ending the conflict in eastern Congo, boasting that his intervention stopped what he called “a vicious war.” But on the ground, residents,...
The rebel movement M23, accused of atrocities in eastern Congo, has pushed back against fresh allegations, rejecting a new rights report that links it to a string of massacres. In a statement Wednesday...
At least 140 civilians were killed in eastern Congo in July, reportedly by Rwanda-backed rebels, in what a human rights organization has described as “summary executions.” Human Rights Watch...
The United States has imposed sanctions on an armed group accused of exploiting mineral wealth in eastern Congo. According to a senior U.S. official speaking anonymously ahead of Tuesday’s announcement,...
In one of the deadliest waves of violence in recent years, at least 319 people were killed in a series of massacres carried out by Rwanda-backed rebels in eastern Congo, according to a Wednesday statement...
After decades of brutal conflict in eastern Congo, a new peace accord signed between the Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda has stirred cautious hope for change. The deal, brokered by the United States...
For the first time since rebel forces took control of Goma, the head of the United Nations peacekeeping mission in Congo, Bintou Keita, met face-to-face with the leaders of M23 rebels on Friday in the...
Amnesty International has issued a damning report accusing the M23 rebel group of grave human rights abuses, including torture, killings, and enforced disappearances in eastern Congo’s rebel-held...

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