DRC is a member of the SADC and the East Africa Community, or EAC, while Rwanda is an EAC member.

Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) in Eastern and Southern Africa have described the crisis in the Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) as more than just a national emergency, calling it "a ...

UN human rights chief Volker Türk on Friday (07 Feb) expressed profound concerns at the ongoing violent escalation in eastern ...

The United Nations Human Rights Council today agreed by consensus to launch an urgent fact-finding mission and commission of ...

The Democratic Republic of Congo has been mired in conflict for years. As fresh fighting surges in the east, the roots of ...

The M23, whose top brass are mostly Congolese Tutsi, began its insurgency more than three years ago after a decade of ...

The Luanda Process has not been able to bring tangible results either. The reasons for this failure include bad faith from ...

The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Sudan are once again in the grip of deadly conflicts, highlighting the urgent need for competent and decisive leadership at the African Union (AU). The ...

Learn more about the ongoing conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and how humanitarian organizations are ...

Negotiations have consistently failed because DRC is poorly led, the people are deeply divided and fighting amongst ...

After the M23 militia advanced on Goma in eastern DRC, hospitals report they have now reached capacity. While the militia has ...

On Jan. 28, the Rwanda-backed rebel group M23 captured Goma, capital city of the Democratic Republic of Congo’s mineral-rich ...