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The U.S. dollar has weakened since January, but even so, it’s still the world’s dominant currency in many ways — you can find ...
A U.S. official says Congo and Rwanda have submitted a draft peace proposal as part of a U.S.-led process that could end ...
Virtually all banks are closed. Currency shortages abound. Staples prices have jumped. Now residents are finding themselves ...
The unprecedented advance by Rwandan-backed M23 rebels, part of a decades-long conflict rooted in the Rwandan genocide, has ...
For three months, the people of Goma have lived under the control of M23 rebels. Daily violence, economic collapse, and ...
He took over leadership of the country in 2001 at the age of just 29, after his father and former coup leader, President ...
South Africa’s armed forces announced Thursday they had begun pulling their peacekeepers out of eastern Congo, a region now under the sway of rebel fighters.
Congo's justice minister says that authorities have asked the country’s Senate to lift the immunity of former President Joseph Kabila so that he can face trial on charges of supporting a rebel insurge ...
The South African armed forces say they have begun withdrawing their peacekeeping troops from rebel-controlled eastern Congo.
As it continues to take territory, the Congolese rebel group M23 wants to show it is more than just an army, and that it can ...
The emerging crisis in eastern DR Congo and especially around the city of Goma, in the province of North Kivu, has worrying implications for cholera in the region. The area around Goma has been ...
A joint statement from Congo’s government and a coalition of insurgents in the country’s east including the M23 rebels says ...