Meanwhile, Congo ... women were killed after they were raped as the male inmates set the prison ablaze. Video footage on social media last week showed people fleeing from the Munzenze prison as ...

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

ramping up the risk of a return to full-blown regional war. Burundi has had soldiers in eastern Congo for years, initially to hunt down Burundian rebels there but, more recently, supporting ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

Prominent human rights group Amnesty International accused Congo’s army and a rebel group of bombing densely populated areas in attacks that “likely constitute war crimes.” Both the Congolese armed ...

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 ...

Instead of prosperity, Congo's natural wealth has brought violence. "This didn't start a day or a month ago. The DRC's riches have always attracted greed, colonialism, and imperialism," Boyer added.

Rwanda-backed M23 rebels took the Congolese trading hub of Goma last week, leaving thousands dead and wounded and raising concerns of a regional war. Congo and United Nations experts say M23 has ...