U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has urged an immediate ceasefire in the escalating conflict in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), following the recent capture of Goma and Bukavu ...

President William Ruto and the US Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Friday, February 21, 2025, held a third phone ...

DRC government spokesman confirms the presence of Rwandan army in Goma and says Kinshasa is working to avoid carnage.

Nairobi is considering evacuating nationals who can reach the consulate in Goma or the temporary offices in Congo Brazzaville ...

The government has called on to Kenyans in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) to take extreme caution of their security situation following the disturbing situation of escalating conflict in ...

Kenya has announced a virtual crisis summit, but Congolese state media says President Felix Tshisekedi will not attend.

“The situation in eastern DRC now demands our collective focus.” The apparent takeover of Goma, a city of about 2 million, has prompted fears of further violence and mass displacemen ...

AFRICA: Unanimously adopted UN Security Council resolution “strongly condemns the ongoing offensive and advances of M23 ...

The M23 rebels are the most prominent of more than 100 armed groups that have been vying for control of eastern Congo’s trillions of dollars in mineral wealth.

A few minutes after 5 AM on Sunday, the 3rd of December 2023, Kenyan soldiers loaded themselves into a Kenya Air Force plane and took off from the eastern DRC town of Goma, bound for Nairobi.

This comes after the reportedly Rwandan-backed rebels said over the weekend they had taken control of the city, the biggest city in the region ...

The United States has sanctioned a Rwandan government minister for his alleged role in the conflict in neighboring Congo, where Rwanda-backed rebels are battling the Congolese army and have captured ...