False: Rwanda denies its involvement in DRC war
On Feb. 20, the U.S. Treasury Department sanctioned a minister in the Rwandan Ministry of Foreign Affairs for acting as ...
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Chaos, looting break out as rebels push toward major DRC city
GOMA, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO — Panic swept through eastern Congo’s second-largest city on Saturday as residents fled by the ...
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African leaders call for ‘immediate ceasefire’ at DRC summit
BUKAVU, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO — A summit of African leaders meeting to address the crisis in the Democratic Republic ...
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Rwanda-backed rebels in DRC declare a unilateral ceasefire
GOMA, Democratic Republic of Congo — The Rwanda-backed rebels who seized eastern Democratic Republic of Congo’s key city of Goma ...
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Civilians at increased risk as M23 rebels capture DRC’s Goma, rights advocates warn
Nairobi, Kenya — Human Rights Watch is expressing concern about civilians in the eastern Congolese city of Goma now that ...
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Congo severs ties with Rwanda as rebels close in on Goma, displacing thousands
GOMA, DRC — Congo severed diplomatic ties with Rwanda as fighting between Rwanda-backed rebels and government forces raged around the ...
Read moreDetailsBonobo numbers in DRC park stable, but signs of decline appear
Bonobo populations in the Democratic Republic of Congo‘s Salonga National Park remained steady between 2002 and 2018, but there are ...
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Armed conflict, not Batwa people, at heart of Grauer’s gorillas’ past decline in DRC park
A new study has concluded that the decline in Grauer’s gorillas in a sector of their main stronghold in the ...
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