Domestic power struggles between President Tshisekedi and former president Kabila will likely complicate difficult ...

Paul Kagame gives cautious welcome to US-brokered agreement, but says success depends on goodwill from warring parties.

It’s one of several attempts to end the deadly conflict in the troubled eastern DRC. Will it work where others failed?

The Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda have signed a peace deal facilitated by the U.S. to help end the decades-long ...

Rwanda, the primary backer of the M23 armed group, supported its offensive in eastern DRC with three to four thousand ground troops. As Goma fell , thousands of locals —many of whom were already ...

The Rwanda-backed M23 rebel militia launched an offensive four years ago on eastern DRC, capturing two key cities alongside ...

A new agreement between DRC and Rwanda seeks to end violence in eastern DRC, but many local residents remain uncertain about ...

Washington will host the heads of state of DR Congo and Rwanda in the “coming weeks,” his senior Africa adviser said on ...

Another key demand is the return of Congolese Tutsi refugees, many of whom live in Uganda and Rwanda, to Congo. The DRC government, however, considers the M23 a "puppet" of Rwandan interests.

The US-brokered negotiations aim to secure the Rwandan forces’ withdrawal from eastern DRC and end Rwanda’s support to AFC/M23.

The deal aligns squarely with U.S. strategic interests and President Trump’s ethos for a transactional foreign policy. The ...