Conflict Minerals - A Convenient Myth for DR Congo's M23 War?

Eight African leaders called for an immediate ceasefire in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, where recent conflict ... threatened to ignite a regional war. The heads of state from the ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. M23 rebels escort government soldiers and police who surrendered to an undisclosed location in Goma ...

The group waged the First Congo War from October 1996 to May 1997 that ... It’s usually only men who participate in such talks. Women, who endure the brutality of sexual violence and other ...

Condemnation has grown over Rwanda’s military backing of the M23 insurgency in eastern Congo, near the border between the two nations. President Paul Kagame, who many in the West had favoured for his ...

Women and child recipients in war zones — such as in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo and parts of Sudan — are especially hard hit amid the aid pause. The same goes for people in 25 of the ...

The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has experienced violent conflict since the start of the First Congo War in 1996–97. The Second Congo War (1998–2003) was the deadliest conflict since World ...

KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — The deadly march by Rwanda-backed rebels across eastern Congo could widen into a regional conflict drawing in even more countries, analysts warn, and the two nations most ...

Eastern Congo in recent decades has been the setting for a conflict that has caused the highest death toll since World War II. Its last major regional upheaval broke out in 1998 as Congo's then ...