The American Conservative26d
Violence, Minerals, and the Inevitable in Central Africa
The ethnic Tutsi militants, who have been intermittently fighting the DRC government for years ... giving them control over an area that is home to millions of people. M23 is widely believed ...
Unraveling the mysteries of the world’s most critical rainforest
For decades, the Congo Basin was largely invisible to climate science. Now, a new generation of Central African researchers ...
Responsible Statecraft on MSN13d
M23 & Rwanda are trying to redraw the map and it's all about to blow
Will offers of resource wealth to the US and other powers help bring militia violence to heel in the Democratic Republic of ...
Radio France Internationale26d
Burundi troops deploy in east DRC, as UK pauses most aid
The Rwanda-backed M23 has in recent weeks seized two major cities in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), giving the ... to this conflict," a UK government spokesperson said, adding that ...
WFMZ-TV27d
Burundi troops deploy in east DRC, as UK pauses most aid
Families wait in a boat with their belongings on the shores of Lake Kivu in Bukavu as thousands flee the conflict The M23 has advanced easily in the region in recent weeks, Map showing eastern ...
Mongabay News on MSN16d
The environmental toll of the M23 conflict in eastern DRC (Analysis)
By Fergus O’Leary SimpsonJoel MasselinkLara Collart The resurgence of the M23 (March 23 movement) rebel group has once again drawn global attention to the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC ...
AllAfrica on MSN4d
Burundi: Scholar Tells How Burundi, FDLR Connived in DR Congo Village Massacre
As part of a book project on the mechanisms of genocide ideology in eastern DR Congo's North Kivu Province, Harvard scholar ...
Reuters19d
A tinderbox conflict in Congo is ready to explode
Latest area of control as of March 3 ... The position of Uganda, officially in Congo to help the government fight against Islamist militants, is ambiguous as the U.N. has accused it of also ...
Al Jazeera English7d
Why does DRC want a Ukraine-like minerals deal with Trump, amid conflict?
The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is having “daily exchanges” with the United States government with the ... 100 other armed groups that have control of lucrative mines throughout ...
Fox Business9d
Congo's mineral offer to US raises questions of ownership amid bloody civil war, major China presence
adding that "should these areas fall permanently under the control of rebel administrations, then the DRC government will lose the practical ability to exploit and sell mineral resources it still ...
The Africa Report4d
M23 takes Walikale in DRC, defying ceasefire: The shifting front line of the rebel offensive
The M23 rebels took control of the North Kivu mining town a day after Félix Tshisekedi and Paul Kagame called for an ...
Al Jazeera English15d
M23 rebels advance as DRC gov’t offers $5m reward to capture rebel leaders
“Walikale is very important for the government as it is the only ... than 200 armed groups operating in the eastern DRC and vying for control over the region’s minerals. After being dormant ...