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William Ruto calls for immediate ceasefire in DRC, convenes extraordinary summit to forge way forward
Kenya's President William Ruto has announced an extraordinary meeting of East African heads of states, to deliberate on the ...
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MONUSCO operational status raised to counter M23 in eastern DRC as rebels claim Goma
The M23 advance on North Kivu capital Goma, first reported last week, saw the United Nations (UN) mission in Democratic ...
‘Embarrassing option’: Defence union says negotiating with DRC rebels for SANDF exit probably the way out
Calls mount in South Africa for the SANDF to withdraw from the DRC as casualties rise. Advocate Pikkie Greeff from the SA ...
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9 SANDF soldiers killed in DRC: SA demands action against M23 rebels
SA urges decisive UN action on DRC conflict as M23 rebels escalate violence, killing nine SANDF peacekeepers and displacing ...
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DRC tells UN the Rwanda-backed rebel advance is 'a declaration of war'
She described the move as “a frontal aggression, a declaration of war, which no longer hides itself behind diplomatic ...
DRC creates a reserve force to fight the M23 – why this may backfire
Merely absorbing armed groups into a reserve force does little to address the underlying causes of the eastern DRC crisis.
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UNHCR Raises Alarm as Violence in Eastern DRC Escalates: Over 400,000 Displaced in 2025
“The Secretary-General has called for all parties to respect human rights and international humanitarian law. This must be ...
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SA calls on international community to assist in DRC conflict
Fighting with M23 rebels left at least 13 peacekeepers and South African soldiers dead after two days of fierce fighting in ...
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M23 rebels seen in centre of Goma, DRC, despite UN demand for them to leave, witnesses say
M23 vows to defend Tutsi interests, particularly against ethnic Hutu militias such as the FDLR, which was founded by Hutus ...
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UN Security Council denounces M23 forces disregard of DRC sovereignty, territorial integrity
The council said it condemns the unauthorised presence of external forces and is demanding that these forces withdraw ...
Rwanda’s troublemaking in DRC would be easy to stop
Rwandan diplomats say their army is not deployed in the DRC, but if it was it would be to protect the Congolese Tutsi community and their own borders against the rebel Forces Démocratiques de ...