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Relief as Congo-Rwanda border reopens with extended service hours
People trade at the Rwanda-DRC Rubavu border in a past photo. After nearly three years of restrictions on operational hours ...
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The country in Africa that is 11th largest in the world and borders nine others
A country in Africa that’s roughly the size of the United States east of the Mississippi River also shares its border with a staggering nine other countries. Congo is the second largest country ...
Congo says it will seek to recover lost territory as Rwanda-backed rebels advance south
As an East African bloc urged an immediate ceasefire in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwandan-backed M23 rebels who ...
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Rwanda-DR Congo border crossings surge to over 30,000 after M23 secures Goma
Rwanda and DR Congo’s border towns of Rubavu and Goma, respectively, are experiencing a surge in cross-border movement of people and goods after AFC/M23 rebels secured the capital of eastern DR ...
Violence erupts in mineral-rich DR Congo as rebels move into key city. Here’s what we know
A rebel alliance claimed the capture of the biggest city in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s mineral-rich eastern region ...
Rwanda-backed rebels take more towns as they expand control after seizing east Congo’s largest city
Congolese forces were losing control of the city of Goma on Wednesday after rebel groups backed by Rwanda took over the airport and shared plans to set up a new administration.
110,000 people are stranded in eastern Congo as rebels are accused of forced return
The U.N. says more than 110,000 displaced people have in recent days left settlement camps in eastern Congo’s cities ...
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Rwanda-backed rebels bed down in Congo's Goma and push south for further gains
UN cites reports Rwandan troops crossed border towards Bukavu Further territorial gains would raise risk of wider war Rwanda's Kagame furious at criticism over support for M23 Congo condemns ...
Who's pulling the strings in the DR Congo crisis?
The seizure by M23 rebels of vast tracts of land in the mineral-rich east of the Democratic Republic of Congo has triggered a ...
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Congo-Rwanda border shut as M23 rebels claim Goma capture
"The border is closed," the consulate source told ... mineral-rich region during the decadeslong conflict. According to Congo's government and United Nations experts, the rebels temporarily ...
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Uganda-DR Congo borders remain quiet despite capture of Goma by rebels
The situation at the Bunagana and Mupaka border points with the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) in Kisoro District remained “dull” yesterday, following the M23 rebels' capture of Goma ...
Hospitals in eastern Congo are crowded with wounded and exhausting their supplies
Hundreds of wounded people have poured into overcrowded hospitals in Goma after Rwanda-backed rebels captured the major city ...