Tag Archives: M23

Can Uganda avoid Rwanda clash over M23? COVER STORY | THE INDEPENDENT | East African heads of State convening for the African Union Summit in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, have put the renewed violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DR Congo) as the main agenda of their sidelines meeting. …

United Nations | Xinhua | Dozens of civilians were killed in attacks by armed groups in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) over the weekend, a United Nations spokesman said on Monday. According to preliminary reports, the armed group CODECO killed at least 20 civilians on Sunday in DRC’s Ituri …

How politics in Kinshasa has united with interests in the “international community” to sustain Congo as a failed state THE LAST WORD | Andrew M. Mwenda | Rwanda is a very unlucky country. It is the most developmentalist state in Africa. Yet its ambitions to modernise do not depend entirely on its own …

Kinshasa, DRC | Xinhua |  The government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) on Monday condemned the attack on a helicopter of the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the DRC (MONUSCO) on the outskirts of the city of Goma, the capital of the eastern North Kivu province. …

At least 27 million people are in acute need of humanitarian aid. Bujumbura, Burundi | THE INDEPENDENT | Kenya’s President William Ruto has called on leaders from the East African Community (EAC) to urgently address the conflict in the Eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo. He said the situation remains fluid …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Democratic Republic of Congo-DRC has asked Rwandan army officials deployed under the East African Community (EAC) regional force in Goma, the provincial capital of North Kivu to vacate immediately. In a letter issued Tuesday morning, Major General Sylvain Ekenge Bomusa Efomi, the national spokesperson …

United Nations, USA | Xinhua | Attacks by the M23 Movement rebels and an explosion wounding 18 civilians leave a tense situation in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), a UN spokesman said on Thursday. The UN peacekeeping mission in the DRC, known as MONUSCO, reported a tense situation following …

Mombasa, Kenya | THE INDEPENDENT | Bertrand Bisimwa, the President of the March 23 Movement (M23) rebels on Thursday evening held a meeting with Uhuru Kenyatta, the former president of Kenyan in the coastal city of Mombasa. The meeting is one of the steps to implement the peace deal in North …

Juba, South Sudan | Xinhua | South Sudanese President Salva Kiir on Wednesday bid farewell to more than 700 peacekeepers to be deployed in the neighboring Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Kiir told the troops to stick to the mission, maintain discipline and stay away from criminal activities. “I want …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | M23 rebels have withdrawn from their position in Kibumba in Nyiragongo territory, North Kivu in Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo(DRC) as one of the steps towards implementing the Luganda and Angola peace deal agreements. The rebels have controlling Kibumba about 29.7 Kilometers from Goma city …