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Congo’s army and Burundian allies slow Rwandan-backed M23 rebels from pushing south
M23 says it exists to defend eastern Congo’s ethnic Tutsi population from remnants of Rwandan Hutu militias involved in perpetrating Rwanda’s 1994 genocide, in which more than one million ...
DR Congo: What you need to know about the conflict
The Democratic Republic of the Congo has a wealth of natural resources, including metals and minerals such as gold, tin and coltan, essential for manufacturing mobile phones and batteries for electric ...
Violence erupts in mineral-rich DR Congo as rebels move into key city. Here’s what we know
A rebel alliance claimed the capture of the biggest city in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s mineral-rich eastern region ...