The rapid spread of illness in the African country may be due to contaminated water, rather than a virus that jumped from bat ...

Congo's government will engage in peace talks with the M23 rebel group in Angola, marking a shift from its previous refusal for direct negotiations. The conflict in mineral-rich eastern Congo has ...

The presidents of Congo and neighboring Rwanda met Tuesday in Qatar for their first direct talks since Rwanda-backed M23 ...

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DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — The Rwanda-backed rebels who captured key areas of Congo’s mineral-rich east said Monday they were withdrawing from peace talks this week with the Congolese government ...

The meeting between Congo’s President Felix Tshisekedi and Rwanda’s President Paul Kagame to discuss the insurgency was mediated by Qatar, the three governments said in a joint statement.

Few details on a possible ceasefire in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo had come to light on Wednesday, the day after ...

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George Foreman, the two-time world heavyweight boxing champion and Olympic gold medalist, passed away on March 21, 2025, at ...

The Rwanda-backed M23 group said it would not attend Tuesday's peace talks with the DR Congo government in the Angolan capital Luanda following EU sanctions on some of its top brass. But Kinshasa said ...