Kenya has joined other East African Community and Southern African Development Community member States in calling for cessation and ceasefire in the conflict prone eastern Democratic Republic of Congo ...

President Cyril Ramaphosa has refused to engage in a public dispute with his Rwandan counterpart Paul Kagame. Kagame last ...

Worst may be yet to come’ says UN human rights chief as DRC and Rwanda deny responsibility and blame one another.

The crisis in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) escalated at the end of January 2025 when Goma, the capital of the province of North Kivu, fell to Rwanda-backed M23 rebels.The civilian ...

IOL reported that President Cyril Ramaphosa aimed at US President Donald Trump, telling him that South Africa will not be ...

The M23, whose top brass are mostly Congolese Tutsi, began its insurgency more than three years ago after a decade of dormancy, seizing large parts of North Kivu province before finally grabbing Goma, ...

GENEVA - Rwanda said on Friday it had proof of an intended major attack by the Democratic Republic of Congo and denied it was fomenting conflict inside its neighbour's border. Read more at ...

The soldiers' bodies were due to be repatriated to South Africa on Wednesday. However, the SANDF on Thursday stated that all administrative processes were completed and handed over to the United ...

Congo calls an emergency UN Human Rights Council meeting, demanding an urgent investigation of violations it says have been committed by Rwandan-backed M23 rebels.

As M23 continues its destructive march, the upcoming EAC-SADC summit must consider lessons from failed peace efforts.

The UN Human Rights Council is considering whether to launch an investigation into alleged abuses committed in eastern Congo on Kinshasa's request. Rwanda alleged it was responding to an "imminent" ...

The UN’s top human rights body is holding an urgent session on spiralling violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where Rwanda-backed rebels recently captured a key city and some 3,000 people ...