REUTERS/Arlette Bashizi NAIROBI (Kenya), Jan 27 (Bernama-AA) -- Kenyan President William Ruto, who chairs the East African Community, said the bloc will convene an extraordinary summit within 48 hours ...

after rebels overran thousands of Congolese troops, United Nations peacekeepers and soldiers from several other African countries. An extended battle for Goma threatens a new bloody chapter in a ...

Rebels of the M23 movement say they have taken ... Kenyan President William Ruto, the current chair of the East African Community, said it was incumbent on regional leaders to help facilitate ...

VOA60 Africa - DR Congo: M23 rebel group seize eastern town of Minova Ndira 21, 2025 VOA60 Africa - Hospital in Goma treats more than 200 wounded as violence escalates in eastern DRC ...

The M23, the latest in a long line of Tutsi-led rebel movements backed by Rwanda, captured Goma in 2012 but withdrew days later after an agreement brokered by neighbouring nations. Congo has more than ...

South Africa condemns rebel attacks South Africa’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Ambassador Mathu Joyini, on Sunday called on the Rwanda Defence Forces to cease support to the M23 ...

Nine South African soldiers have died in intense fighting with M23 rebels in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), reported IOL. The troops were part of the Southern African Development ...

In a statement released on Saturday evening by Dlamini Siphiwe, the army’s head of communication, seven of the dead are under the Southern African Development Community Mission in the Democratic ...

The South African National Defence Force (SANDF) has confirmed that nine soldiers were killed by the M23 rebels in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The RSA contingent forms an integral part ...

The M23 rebels are one of about 100 armed groups vying for a foothold in the mineral-rich region in a decades-long conflict, one of Africa’s largest. The rebels temporarily took over Goma in ...