Qatar’s Diplomatic Dance: Finding Peace in the Congo Qatari mediators facilitated talks between the Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda amidst ongoing insurgency by M23 rebels in eastern Congo.

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Rebel leader of group of Alliance Fleuve Congo (AFC) including M23, Corneille Nangaa, addresses a news ...

DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — The presidents of Congo and neighboring Rwanda met Tuesday in Qatar for their first direct talks since Rwanda-backed M23 rebels seized two major cities in mineral-rich ...

With three neighbouring armies already on the ground, a conflict that has simmered in Democratic Republic of Congo’s eastern borderlands for years is evolving into a wider regional war.

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. M23 rebels enter the centre of east Congo’s second-largest city, Bukavu, and take control of the South ...

DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Congo’s government will participate in peace talks in Angola on Tuesday with the Rwanda-backed M23 rebel group that has captured key areas of Congo’s mineral-rich east ...

The latest conflict in eastern Congo has exposed endemic weaknesses in the country’s military, long known for corruption, extortion and abuse. Congolese soldiers near the city of Goma ...

Democratic Republic of Congo's President Felix Tshisekedi and his Rwandan counterpart Paul Kagame met in Doha on Tuesday for the first time since the latest M23 advance that has seen the rebels ...

GOMA, Congo -- Rwanda-backed M23 rebels entered the strategic town of Walikale in eastern Congo late Wednesday, according to residents and civil society leaders, a day after the Congolese and ...

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