If you believe the conflict in Eastern DR Congo is about minerals, you’ve been deceived by organised misinformation and intellectual laziness. This is not a mineral issue. It is a neo-colonial one, ...

Over the years, the pursuit of peace in Africa has often been hijacked by external forces that prioritise their interests ...

Thousands have been killed and 700,000 displaced this year, after Rwandan troops and M23 rebels invaded eastern Congo.

After talks in Qatar, the two countries’ presidents said they were committed to an unconditional truce between Congo’s army ...

ITS soldiers are underpaid and underarmed. Its ranks are riddled with factions pursuing their own interests. And successive ...

Belgium, Rwanda’s former colonial ruler, pushed for the European Union to impose sanction against Rwandan officials over ...

M23 rebels said they were pulling out of talks with the government of the Democratic Republic of Congo because EU sanctions ...

Rwanda has cut diplomatic ties with Belgium, accusing it of undermining Kigali and taking sides in DR Congo’s ongoing ...

The rebel alliance, of which M23 is a member, says it was withdrawing from what could have been the two sides’ first direct ...