Despite its diminutive size on the all-too-common world maps that use Mercator projection, Africa is the second-largest ...

On 23 April 2025, delegations from Kinshasa and rebel group M23’s political affiliate, Alliance Fleuve Congo (AFC), declared ...

Qatar brokered talks between the government of Democratic Republic of Congo and the M23 rebel group, which is backed by Rwanda, to agree to common terms for a dialogue. One of the first notable ...

The government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Rwanda-backed M23 rebels have agreed to pause fighting as they work towards a broader peace deal, according to their joint statement.

A delegation of the Democratic Republic of Congo's (DRC) government held fresh talks with M23 rebels in Qatar last week about stopping the fighting in the country's east, a source close to the ...

Talks are being brokered by Qatar. The M23 has seized two major cities in eastern DRC — Goma and Bukavu — killing over 7,000 people and displacing another 1.2 million since the start of the year.

Plantations et Huileries du Congo, the DRC’s leading palm oil producer, plans to exponentially increase its palm oil ...

The DRC announced Tuesday in a press release that defendants Marcel Malanga Malu, Taylor Christa Thompson and Zalman Polun Benjamin Reben had been sentenced to death there in January for "highly ...

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A Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) government delegation has met with Rwanda-backed M23 rebels in Qatar in a bid to halt fighting in the country’s east, a source with knowledge of the talks ...

The DRC is one of the world’s least-industrialized countries, and remains beset by political instability and conflict going back decades. “When a country is not stable, there’s a lot of ...