Why Congo’s Vast Army Is Struggling to Fight a Far Smaller Militia
The latest conflict in eastern Congo has exposed endemic weaknesses in the country’s military, long known for corruption, extortion and abuse.
It’s been a month since rebels seized an eastern Congo city. Goma residents say they are struggling
Rwanda-backed rebels captured a key eastern Congo city a month ago Friday. Residents in Goma say they are struggling on ...
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Historic new project could change the future of the world's largest tropical forest: 'Bold and ambitious'
A groundbreaking conservation initiative in the Democratic Republic of Congo is poised to reshape the future of the Congo ...
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DR Congo's Goma faces economic and financial crisis following M23 takeover
Businesses are struggling to survive, financial transactions are almost impossible, and people are having trouble making ends ...
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Democratic Republic of the Congo
After clashes in Bukavu between armed groups including the M23 Rebels, the remains of some of the victims were buried. Fears of regional conflict grow as M23 captures cities in eastern DRC ...
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Conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo
When Mobutu fled Kinshasa, the Kabila-Kagame coalition won the First Congo War in 1997. Kabila was installed as president of Zaire and changed the country’s name back to The Democratic Republic ...
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Conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo
When Mobutu fled Kinshasa, the Kabila-Kagame coalition won the First Congo War in 1997. Kabila was installed as president of Zaire and changed the country’s name back to The Democratic Republic ...
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Rwandan-backed M23 rebels capture key city in Democratic Republic of Congo
Feb. 17 (UPI) --M23 rebels in the Democratic Republic of Congo captured the eastern city of Bukavu with the backing of Rwandan forces, the second major city in the mineral-rich Kivu region to fall ...
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M23 Fighters Seize City of Bukavu in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
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M23 troops advance into DR Congo's second city as UK warns of escalation
Rwanda-backed M23 rebels advanced on Sunday into Bukavu, the second-largest city in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo ... to capture the key provincial capital of Goma in North Kivu last ...
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Almost 3,000 people killed in Democratic Republic of the Congo fighting
Almost 3,000 people have been killed in fighting in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the UN has ... of a town 60 miles from the provincial capital of Bukavu. The Office of the ...
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Hundreds of women raped, burnt alive in Congo jailbreak amid rebel conflict
Rwanda-backed M23 rebels last week captured regional capital Goma in an anarchic and mineral-rich part of Democratic Republic of Congo. Hundreds of women inmates in Munzenze prison of Congo's Goma ...