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Congo replaces top military chief and other senior officers as fighting in the east rages on

GOMA, Congo — Congolese President Felix Tshisekedi has replaced the armed forces chief and several other top officers in a major reshuffle while the military battles rebels in the country’s eastern region, state media announced late Thursday. Congo’s military has been fighting more than 100 armed groups for years in the mineral-rich eastern region where the rebels are vying for …

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1 week, 1 day ago

Rwanda and Congo cancel peace talks to end a conflict in eastern Congo

Associated Press

GOMA, Congo — Planned face-to-face peace talks between Congo and Rwanda have been unexpectedly canceled, the Congolese president said. Congo’s President Felix Tshisekedi and Rwanda’s President Paul Kagame were set to meet Sunday in Angola, which has been mediating the conflict to put an end to a decades-long conflict in eastern Congo between the Congolese army and M23 rebel group, …

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1 week, 2 days ago

Fighting in eastern Congo between army and rebels intensifies ahead of peace talks Sunday

Associated Press

GOMA, Congo — Fighting between the Congolese army and the M23 rebel group intensified in eastern Congo in recent days ahead of much anticipated peace talks on Sunday, the army said. Congo’s army accused the M23 of killing 12 civilians earlier this week in villages of the Lubero territory in the eastern province of North-Kivu in a statement on Friday. …

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1 month ago

Congo accuses rebel group of ‘ethnic cleansing’ in country’s east

Associated Press

KINSHASA, Congo — Congo’s government on Tuesday accused the Rwanda-backed M23 rebel group of “ethnic cleansing” in the central African nation’s east. M23, or the March 23 Movement, is a rebel military group mainly made up of ethnic Tutsis who broke away from the Congolese army just over a decade ago. The group rose to prominence in 2012 when its …

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9 months, 2 weeks ago

At least 10 people killed as rebels seize a town in Congo’s conflict-hit eastern region

Associated Press

GOMA, Congo — A rebel group with alleged links to neighboring Rwanda seized a town in Congo’s conflict-hit eastern region following attacks that killed at least 10 people and displaced thousands, reports said Wednesday. He said thousands of people had fled toward Goma, which is eastern Congo’s largest city and the capital of North Kivu province. M23 controls about half …

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10 months, 1 week ago

3 dead in bombing attack on Congo displacement camp as violence in the east escalates

Associated Press

GOMA, Congo — A group of rebels bombed a displacement camp in eastern Congo’s North Kivu province killing three civilians and injuring eight others, a local civil society group said Tuesday, as violence in the conflict-hit region sparked protests and a humanitarian group warned that thousands are facing limited access to aid. A rebel group with alleged links to neighboring …

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10 months, 2 weeks ago

Residents scatter as they fear Congo rebel group will again seize key eastern city of Goma

Associated Press

GOMA, Congo — One of eastern Congo’s most active rebel groups is attacking a community considered the last line of defense before the region’s largest city of Goma, fleeing residents said Wednesday, even as the rebels claimed they had no intention to seize it again. The M23, with alleged ties to Rwanda, detonated explosives in North Kivu’s Sake city 27 …

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10 months, 2 weeks ago

Thousands flee in eastern DR Congo as M23 rebels advance near Goma

Al Jazeera

Thousands of people are fleeing violence in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo as fighting intensifies between the Congolese army and the M23 armed group. Thousands are “on the road right now”, trying to escape the violence and get to Goma, Al Jazeera’s Alain Uaykani said, reporting from Bulengo on Wednesday. We don’t know where we can go … but …

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10 months, 3 weeks ago

Congo rebel group kills at least 19 people in attack on eastern town

Associated Press

KINSHASA, Congo — At least 19 people were killed when rebels attacked a town in Congo’s North Kivu province, the army said late Thursday, the latest violence in the country’s conflict-battered east. The rebels shelled the town of Mweso, where they “indiscriminately dropped mortar bombs,” which also injured 27 other civilians, army spokesman Lt. Col. Guillaume N’djike Kaïko said in …

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1 year ago

US says Congo and rebel groups agree to a 3-day cease-fire ahead of key election, but cracks emerge

Associated Press

GOMA, Congo — Congolese security forces and rebel groups have agreed on a 72-hour cease-fire to de-escalate tensions in the country’s hard-hit east near the border with Rwanda, the White House announced just days before Congo’s presidential election. The agreement was backed by both Congo and Rwanda, a spokeswoman for the White House National Security Council, Adrienne Watson, said in …

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1 year ago

Tensions between Congo and Rwanda heighten the risk of military confrontation, UN envoy says

Associated Press

UNITED NATIONS — Tensions between Congo and Rwanda have escalated, heightening the risk of a military confrontation that could draw in Burundi, the top U.N. official in Congo warned the Security Council on Monday. She stressed that insecurity “has compounded the ongoing humanitarian crisis.” According to the U.N. humanitarian office, over 6.5 million people are displaced in Congo, 5.5 million …

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1 year ago

Five key issues at stake in the DR Congo’s crucial election

Al Jazeera

Here’s what’s at stake as millions go to vote this December in Africa’s second-largest country by size. Widespread violence perpetrated by multiple armed groups with varying motives has racked the country’s east for about three decades now, leading to the displacement of seven million people. This November, Colin Robertson of Global Witness documented one of the more recent scandals at …

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1 year ago

Rebels in Congo take key outpost in the east as peacekeepers withdraw and fighting intensifies

Associated Press

GOMA, Congo — Armed rebels seized a town in eastern Congo on Thursday after violently clashing with the army, which has taken on an expanded role as peacekeeping forces withdraw from the mineral-rich, conflict-stricken region. “The inhabitants are moving en masse.” M23 is a large and powerful rebel group that operates near Congo’s border with Rwanda, a mineral-rich region where …

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1 year ago

Unease, uncertainty for displaced people in DR Congo ahead of Dec 20 vote

Al Jazeera

Conflict and insecurity have dominated campaign discourse in the DRC and could stop displaced people from voting. “Now, we are starving.” Al Jazeera could not independently verify this incident, but it is consistent with reports of ongoing violence in Congo’s besieged east, and within Virunga National Park itself. Onesphore Sematumba, an analyst at the International Crisis Group, said the government, …

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1 year, 1 month ago

Rebels claim to capture more ground in Congo’s east, raising further concerns about election safety

Associated Press

GOMA, Congo — A rebel group with alleged links to neighboring Rwanda claimed Wednesday to have seized a key town in Congo’s conflict-hit eastern region amid intense fighting, raising further security concerns ahead of the country’s Dec. 20 presidential election. Mweso town, which is about 100 kilometres from the North Kivu provincial capital of Goma, came under the control of …

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1 year, 1 month ago

Congo’s presidential candidates kick off campaigning a month before election

Associated Press

KINSHASA, Congo — Congolese President Felix Tshisekedi and a politician hoping to unseat him next month launched their campaigns Sunday as the incumbent leader faces ongoing violence in eastern Congo and a divided field of opposition candidates. The candidates represented at the talks included Martin Fayulu, a former oil executive who lost to Thisekedi five years ago; businessman Moise Katumbi; …

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1 year, 2 months ago

Congo orders regional peacekeepers to leave by December

Associated Press

GOMA, Congo — Congo’s government spokesperson has said that the East African regional force would have to leave the country by Dec. 8 because of a “lack of satisfactory results on the ground” as agreed on during a regional meeting. Partick Muyaya told journalists on Monday night that the East African Community, or EAC, force must leave the country “because …

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1 year, 6 months ago

‘We need peace’: M23 war displaces DRC residents yet again

Al Jazeera

For thousands of people in the eastern DRC, displacement in the latest onslaught by the M23 is another episode in their fight for survival. “They are still practically using the same discourse,” said Sematumba of the rebels, comparing current fighters with their predecessors in the first M23 rebellion and to CNDP combatants. “ Kagame got very angry about that.” Life …

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1 year, 9 months ago

Rebels capture more ground in Congo as fighting intensifies

Associated Press

GOMA, Congo — A rebel group linked with neighboring Rwanda seized more territory Friday, threatening supply routes to the regional capital, as fighting intensified in conflict-ridden east Congo, local residents and aid workers said. As M23 rebels captured the village of Mushaki in North Kivu province after more than two days of fighting with government forces and militias, civilians — …

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1 year, 10 months ago

Regional leaders urge immediate cease-fire in eastern Congo

Associated Press

NAIROBI, Kenya — Regional heads of state have called for an immediate cease-fire by all parties in eastern Congo, where tensions have grown amid talk of war as Congo and neighboring Rwanda trade allegations of backing armed rebels. The communique issued Saturday at the end of an East African Community summit also directed troop-contributing countries to immediately deploy more troops …

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1 year, 10 months ago

East African leaders urge ceasefire in eastern DR Congo

Al Jazeera

The call came after leaders of the East African Community held a summit in Burundi on Saturday. East African regional leaders have renewed their call for an immediate ceasefire by all sides in the conflict in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo that pits the country’s military against a rebel group that the government has accused Rwanda of supporting. At a …

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1 year, 10 months ago

M23 rebels take control of Kitshanga in eastern DR Congo

Al Jazeera

The rebels seize the strategic town after days of fierce fighting, drawing condemnation from the UN. The M23 rebels have seized the strategic town of Kitshanga in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo after days of fierce fighting, drawing condemnation from the UN. M23′s political spokesman, Lawrence Kanyuka, in a statement on Thursday accused government troops of attacking civilians in …

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1 year, 10 months ago

Fighting intensifies in eastern Congo, displacing hundreds

Associated Press

GOMA, Congo — Fighting intensified around a town in eastern Congo Thursday as a rebel group seeking to expand the territory it controls increased pressure on government troops defending it, forcing hundreds of civilians to flee their homes. Congo for months has accused neighboring Rwanda of supporting the M23 group — whose origins lie in the region’s ethnic fighting — …

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2 years ago

‘Tired of this war': Congolese cope with M23 rebel violence

Associated Press

BENI, Congo — Kavira Mathe was making dinner for her two sons when bullets began flying. “We are tired of this war.” Communities in eastern Congo are struggling to survive in the wake of that massacre and others in which at least 130 people were killed by M23 rebels in what the United Nations called “unspeakable violence” against civilians. The …

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Congo replaces top military chief and other senior officers as fighting in the east rages on

Rwanda and Congo cancel peace talks to end a conflict in eastern Congo

Fighting in eastern Congo between army and rebels intensifies ahead of peace talks Sunday

Congo accuses rebel group of ‘ethnic cleansing’ in country’s east

At least 10 people killed as rebels seize a town in Congo’s conflict-hit eastern region

3 dead in bombing attack on Congo displacement camp as violence in the east escalates

Residents scatter as they fear Congo rebel group will again seize key eastern city of Goma

Thousands flee in eastern DR Congo as M23 rebels advance near Goma

Congo rebel group kills at least 19 people in attack on eastern town

US says Congo and rebel groups agree to a 3-day cease-fire ahead of key election, but cracks emerge

Tensions between Congo and Rwanda heighten the risk of military confrontation, UN envoy says

Five key issues at stake in the DR Congo’s crucial election

Rebels in Congo take key outpost in the east as peacekeepers withdraw and fighting intensifies

Unease, uncertainty for displaced people in DR Congo ahead of Dec 20 vote

Rebels claim to capture more ground in Congo’s east, raising further concerns about election safety

Congo’s presidential candidates kick off campaigning a month before election

Congo orders regional peacekeepers to leave by December

‘We need peace’: M23 war displaces DRC residents yet again

Rebels capture more ground in Congo as fighting intensifies

Regional leaders urge immediate cease-fire in eastern Congo

East African leaders urge ceasefire in eastern DR Congo

M23 rebels take control of Kitshanga in eastern DR Congo

Fighting intensifies in eastern Congo, displacing hundreds

‘Tired of this war': Congolese cope with M23 rebel violence