Rwandan security forces stand guard at the Rusizi border with DRC on February 17, 2025. Congolese authorities are imposing ...

Is a deadly past replaying for Congolese as M23 rebels march on Kinshasa amid presence of Rwandan and Ugandan troops?

The conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has entered a new and more destabilizing stage. A call for a pause in the fighting by leaders from the 8 member states of the East African ...

The Rwanda-backed M23 armed group cautiously welcomed Thursday the prospect of direct negotiations with the Congolese ...

For instance, March 23 Movement (M23), a rebel group named on March 23 2009, the date the accord between the National ...

At about the same time, the DRC failed to renew the mandate of the EAC Regional Force, which was deployed in 2022 after M23 regrouped. Following the exit of the EACRF, the Southern African ...

At least 11 people were killed and 65 others injured after bombs exploded on Thursday at a rally organized by the March 23 ...

linked to the M23’s advance in North and South Kivu. It was gathered that hundreds of thousands of people in the Eastern DRC have so far been displaced with 10,000 to 15,000 fleeing into Burundi ...

In 2017, a few hundred M23 militants crossed the border from Uganda into the DRC where they began a low-level insurgency. This escalated in March 2022, when a renewed M23 began launching direct ...

2022, at least 25 combatants, members of RDF, were shown marching in columns in Kiwanja in Rutshuru territory (eastern DRC), which had been under M23 control since October 29, 2022.” Also ...

Rwandan President Paul Kagame, however, told CNN this month he was unaware whether his nation’s troops were in DRC. Since 2022, M23 – which claims to defend the interest of minority ...