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At least 107 killed in Congo as whaleboat sinks in river

September 12, 2025 11:26 pm

The boat, a narrow, double-ended open vessel caught fire on the Congo River near Malange village in Lukolela territory on Thursday evening, leaving 146 people missing, the Ministry of Social Affairs said in the memo.

Suspected Islamist rebels kill 30 in Congo's North Kivu province

August 16, 2025 11:25 pm

A civil society leader, Samuel Kaheni, the president of the Bapere civil society organization, added that several houses were burned and victims were mostly killed with knives.

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Congo, Rwanda-backed rebels sign declaration of principles for permanent ceasefire in east

July 19, 2025 3:21 pm

It is the first direct commitment by both Congo and the rebels since they seized two key cities in eastern Congo in a major advance.

Rebels in eastern Congo abducted 130 hospital patients, UN says

March 04, 2025 6:27 am

M23 rebels have swept through eastern Congo since the beginning of the year, seizing key cities and killing some 3,000 people in the most significant escalation of conflict in over a decade.

Blasts at M23 rally in eastern Congo kill 11, wound 65, rebel leader says

February 27, 2025 9:49 pm

He said the grenades used on Thursday were the same type as used by Burundi's army in Congo. Reuters could not independently verify this.

Looting in eastern Congo's Bukavu as M23 rebels reach suburbs

February 15, 2025 7:20 pm

Sporadic gunfire was heard overnight and into Saturday morning, according to multiple Bukavu residents, who said the shots were fired by looters.

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Rwanda-backed rebels advance into eastern Congo's 2nd major city of Bukavu

February 15, 2025 2:36 am

The M23 rebels entered the city's Kazingu and Bagira zone and were advancing towards the centre of the city of about 1.3 million people, according to Jean Samy, vice-president of the civil society in South Kivu.

African leaders call for direct talks with rebels to resolve Congo conflict

February 08, 2025 10:09 pm

In late January, the M23 rebels captured Goma, the largest city in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo - the worst escalation of fighting in more than a decade that has left thousands dead.

Rwanda accuses Congo of planning large attack

February 07, 2025 6:20 pm

'We categorically oppose the DRC's attempts to portray Rwanda as being responsible for its instability in the eastern DRC,' said Rwanda's ambassador to the UN in Geneva.

Government soldiers and police officers, right, who surrendered to M23 rebels, left, board trucks to an undisclosed location in Goma, Democratic republic of the Congo, Thursday, Jan. 30, 2025. (AP Photo/Moses Sawasawa)

Congo's army and Burundian allies slow M23 rebel's southern march

January 31, 2025 9:55 pm

Well-trained and professionally armed, M23 is the latest in a long line of Rwandan-supported, Tutsi-led rebel movements to emerge in Congo's volatile eastern borderlands in the wake of two successive wars stemming from Rwanda's 1994 genocide.

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Ebola's life and death struggle in eastern Congo

July 30, 2019 1:20 pm

Health experts agree the experimental Ebola vaccine has saved multitudes in Congo, but after nearly a year and some 171,000 doses given, the epidemic shows few signs of waning - over 1700 have died from the disease.