Further reading: DR Congo: 'The Church stands with those in rebel-controlled areas' Presidents Tshisekedi and Kagame have been summoned to Nairobi for an extraordinary summit of the East African ...

The National Episcopal Conference of Congo (CENCO), which has consistently ... s Deputy Regional Director for East and Southern Africa, Sarah Jackson, said: “The announcement of these prison ...

Heads of state of eight-member East African Community regional block on Wednesday called for an immediate and unconditional ceasefire in eastern Congo, they said in a statement. They also called ...

FILE -Members stand for the arrival of dignitaries at a joint press conference by African Union (AU) and Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) electoral observers in Abuja, Nigeria, Feb.

Murithi Mutiga, programme director for Africa at the Crisis Group, said the group has become more emboldened by Rwanda, which feels Congo is ignoring its interests in the region and which has ...

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Violent protests have erupted in Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), as demonstrators attacked multiple foreign embassies. The unrest was fueled by anger over the recent ...

Rioters stormed embassies and started fires in Democratic Republic of Congo's capital Kinshasa on Tuesday, drawing tear gas from police, in an eruption of protests over a Rwandan-backed rebel ...

ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — The junta-led West African nations of Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso have formally withdrawn from the regional bloc known as ECOWAS, the body said Wednesday. The previously ...

For decades after the identification of mpox in humans in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) in 1970, the disease was largely confined to the rural areas of Central and West Africa and thus ...

The three nations have now officially withdrawn from the bloc (AP) The three junta-led West African nations of Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso have formally withdrawn from the regional bloc known as ...

Murithi Mutiga, program director for Africa at the Crisis Group, said that the group has become more emboldened by Rwanda, which feels Congo is ignoring its interests in the region and which has ...