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A member of the M23 armed group monitors access to the border crossing into Rwanda as men believed to be Romanian military contractors pass through in Goma on January 29, 2025.

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Rwanda’s attack on Congo could plunge Africa into war

Advances by Kigali-backed M23 rebels in eastern Congo could lead to another major continental conflict

Jason K. Stearns and Kristof Titeca 06, Mar 2025

M23 soldiers in Goma on February 6, 2025. Rwandan-backed M23 said it wanted to "liberate all of the Congo" in its first public message since seizing the eastern city of Goma after deadly clashes.

Alexis Huguet / AFP

Rwanda keeps getting away with sowing chaos in Congo

Western powers are unwilling to hold Kigali accountable

Milain Fayulu and Jeffrey Smith 12, Feb 2025

Pasika Bagerimana stands outside a temporary shelter she shares with others who fled fighting, in Nyiragongo, Democratic Republic of Congo, Aug. 31, 2022. Bagerimana, who lost two children to hunger, worries her remaining two children might be next. "Hunger is killing people," she says. Hunger is soaring across parts of Congo's war-torn North Kivu province where the fighting between M23 rebels and government soldiers has been raging since March, according to aid workers, civilians and health workers. (AP Photo/Sam Mednick)

Rebel Violence in Eastern Congo Causes Hunger To Soar

The last thing Pasika Bagerimana remembers before her sons died were their cries of hunger. But the 25-year-old mother had nothing to feed them. “‘Mom, I need to eat. Can you give me food?’” they…

AP 03, Oct 2022

Three American Opinions: Biden’s Democracy Summit

The recent Democracy Summit that was called for by President Joe Biden was criticized for more than one reason, including the countries that were invited or not, its virtual format, and America’s own…

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Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (FARDC) soldiers rest next to a road after Islamist rebel group called the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) attacked area around Mukoko village, North Kivu province of Democratic Republic of Congo, December 11, 2018. REUTERS/Goran Tomasevic/File Photo

ISIS in Congo and Uganda

Recent American reports criticized the Biden administration for ignoring what the reports called “ISIS in the Equator,” and warned that sub-Saharan Africa, after West Africa, might be ISIS's next…

Mohammad Ali Salih 10, Dec 2021

Members of the International Federation of the Red Cross and the Congolese Red Cross go door-to-door in the Beni neighbourhoods, northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo, to listen to families about their fear of the Ebola virus and the response teams on August 31, 2019. (Getty)

To Cure Ebola Will Take More Than a Pill

Two experimental drugs used to treat the Ebola virus in theDemocratic Republic of the Congoare working, medical researchers say. Infected people who took the medications as part of a trial survived…

Laura Seay 13, Sep 2019

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