Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)

M23 rebels stand guard during a meeting in Democratic Republic of Congo, February 6, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Arlette Bashizi/File Photo
Africa

Congo rebels promise security in Bukavu after looting

The M23 fighters moved into the centre of Bukavu on Sunday, marking the Tutsi-led group's most significant advance since seizing east Congo's biggest city of Goma in late January

One of several people in military clothing speaks to a gathered crowd in Katana, near Kavumu airport, Democratic Republic of Congo, as Rwandan-backed M23 rebels have captured the town, according to an M23 source, a resident and a civil society leader, in this still image obtained from a social media video released on February 14, 2025. Photo: Social media/via REUTERS/ File Photo
Africa

M23 rebels advance into eastern Congo's strategic city of Bukavu

Congolese civilians who fled from Goma, in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, following clashes between M23 rebels and the Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (FARDC), carry their belongings as they walk towards the Grand Barrier crossing point to return home, in Gisenyi, Rubavu district, Rwanda, January 30, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Thomas Mukoya
Africa

Congo PM demands 'withdrawal of Rwandan troops' after M23 reach Bukavu suburbs

M23 rebels stand guard during a meeting in Democratic Republic of Congo, February 6, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Arlette Bashizi/File Photo
Africa

Congo rebels say they have entered Bukavu after seizing airport

Congolese civilians who fled from Goma, in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, following clashes between M23 rebels and the Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (FARDC), carry their belongings as they walk towards the Grand Barrier crossing point to return home, in Gisenyi, Rubavu district, Rwanda, January 30, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Thomas Mukoya
Africa

Congo's army and Burundian allies slow M23 rebel's southern march

Internally displaced civilians from the camps in Munigi and Kibati, carry their belongings as they flee following the fight between M23 rebels and the Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (FARDC), in Goma, eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, January 26, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Aubin Mukoni
Africa

Leader of Congo's rebel alliance say they have taken Goma

Members of the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO) ride on a pickup truck as they secure the evacuation of non-essential UN staff, following the fight between M23 rebels and the Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (FARDC), in Goma, North Kivu province, Democratic Republic of Congo, January 25, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Arlette Bashizi/File Photo
Africa

UN Security Council demands M23 stop offensive in eastern Congo

Members of the Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (FARDC) stand guard against the M23 rebel group in Lubero, North Kivu province of the Democratic Republic of Congo October 27, 2024. Photo: REUTERS/Djaffar Al Katanty/File Photo
Africa

Congo severs ties with Rwanda as eastern conflict escalates

US President Joe Biden meets with Angola's President Joao Manuel Goncalves Lourenco in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, US, November 30, 2023. Photo: REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein/File Photo
USA

Biden's long-awaited Africa trip to tout a win against China

Omar Kagoma shows the marks on the skin of his six-year-old son Moussa Niyonkuru, after he recovered from Mpox, outside their house in Kinama zone, in Bujumbura, Burundi, August 28, 2024. Photo: REUTERS/Ngendakumana Evrard
Health

Mpox patients lack medicine, food, in east DR Congo hospital

A test tube labelled "Mpox virus positive" is held in this illustration taken August 20, 2024. Photo: REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration/File Photo
Health

Mpox vaccines to arrive in DR Congo in next few days: WHO

A laboratory nurse takes a sample from a child declared a suspected case of Mpox at the treatment centre in Munigi, Democratic Republic of the Congo July 19, 2024. Photo: REUTERS/Arlette Bashizi/File Photo
Health

UNICEF issues emergency tender to secure mpox vaccines

An undated colorized transmission electron micrograph of mpox virus particles (pink) found within an infected cell (yellow), cultured in the laboratory, captured at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) Integrated Research Facility (IRF) in Fort Detrick, Maryland. Photo: NIAID/Handout via REUTERS
Africa

New mpox strain is changing fast; African scientists are ‘working blindly’ to respond