During a news conference about an air collision in Washington, Trump was asked if he had a plan to bring peace in DRC, where a conflict in the east of the country - that Washington, the U.N. and others say involves Rwanda - has escalated. "You're asking me a quest...
M23 is the latest in a string of ethnic Tutsi-led insurgent groups that have operated in the mineral-rich eastern DRC since a 2003 deal was meant to end wars that had killed 6 million people, mostly from hunger and disease. The group is backed by Rwanda , which says its primary interes...
Rwandan President Paul Kagame on Wednesday disassociated himself from the heavy human toll of the fighting in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), in a region directly bordering his country. "The problem was not created by Rwanda and is not Rwanda's problem. It is Congo's p...
Georgianne Nienaber
ENTEBBE, March 25 (Xinhua) -- Rwandan President Paul Kagame said on Sunday the problems in the Democratic Republic of the Congo need urgent attention. Kagame, who is also the chairperson of the African Union, said despite the presence of the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in ...
U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday described the crisis between Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo as a "very serious problem." During a news conference about an air collision in Washington, Trump was asked if he had a plan to bring peace in DRC, where a conflict ...
KIGALI, June 7 (Xinhua) -- Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) on Thursday physically marked their boundary on the shared frontier adjacent to western Rwanda's Rubavu district and eastern DRC's Goma town. The demarcation took place at the Rubavu-Goma common border on an ...
RIYADH: Saudi Arabia has welcomed the signing of a declaration of principles between the governments of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Rwanda. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs said it appreciated the diplomatic efforts made by the two sides and looked forward to their commitment to the ...
KINSHASA, Aug. 1 (Xinhua) -- Rwanda has closed its border with the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) after a man died of Ebola in Goma, capital city of the North Kivu province, the DRC presidency said Thursday. The presidency's office said in a statement that it regretted a "unilatera...
The geography of this outbreak is different, but also challenging. The region has long been riven with political conflict. North Kivu province is also home to more than 1 million displaced people. And there is significant cross-border travel with Rwanda and Uganda. ...