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Roundup: DR Congo, Rwanda to draft peace deal amid tangled mediation, worsening humanitarian crisis
Displaced people fetch water from a river in the town of Sake, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), April 25, 2025.
New front in US-China rivalry opens, this time in Congo’s copper and cobalt mining heartland
DRC has offered US access to its vast mineral wealth as part of a broader plan to end violence in the country’s east, where ...
Could US-DR Congo ‘minerals-for-security’ deal threaten China’s mining dominance?
The DRC is seeking security guarantees and military support from the United States to attract American investment.
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DRC: Huge rally for peace in Butembo
The march organized by civil society groups came as Goma, the provincial capital of North Kivu marked three months under ...
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Can the DR Congo government be trusted to commit to the Declaration of Principles?
Dare we hope that, at long last, there is a possibility of real, sustainable, lasting peace in DR Congo (and thus the wider Great Lakes Region)? The foreign ministers of DR Congo and Rwanda hosted by ...
The East African on MSN18h
Belgium seeks Museveni’s hand to mend relations with Rwanda
On relations with Kigali, Mr Prévot said Brussels believes there is always room for dialogue and a better understanding of ...
Valentin-Yves Mudimbe, 83, Dies; African Scholar Challenged the West
He deconstructed what he called “the colonial library”: the accounts of Africa by Europeans whose aim, he said, was to ...
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Tanzanian appointed to Lead FP-ICGLR
ANGOLA: In a significant diplomatic achievement, Tanzanian Dr Deo Mwapinga has been appointed the new Secretary General ...
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Broke EAC grapples with financial and staffing crisis
EAC data shows that as of March 2025, member states owed the bloc a whopping $58 ...