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The Democratic Republic of Congo will allow armed forces from neighbouring Uganda to enter its territory to chase rebels blamed for massacres in the region, sources told AFP on Sunday. The deadliest of scores of armed groups…

​​President Yoweri Museveni and his DR Congo counterpart Felix Antoine Tshisekedi of the Democratic Republic of Congo have commissioned a road infrastructure connectivity project covering the Mpondwe/Kasindi-Beni Road (80km); the…

Italy's ambassador to the Democratic Republic of Congo was among three people killed on Monday when a UN convoy was ambushed in the country's troubled east, violence the DRC's president called a "terrorist attack" and that was blamed on a…

Italy's ambassador to the Democratic Republic of Congo has been killed in an attack in the east of the country, its foreign ministry has said. Luca Attanasio, 43, died in hospital on Monday after the United Nations convoy he was…

President Museveni Wednesday joined counterparts, Rwanda’s Paul Kagame, DR Congo’s Felix Tshisekedi and Angola’s Joao Lourenço for a virtual mini-summit, which largely discussed security issues in the region, usually complicated by tensions…

DR Congo troops have captured 40 fighters from a militia blamed for killing hundreds in massacres across the restive eastern part of the country, the UN mission MONUSCO said Wednesday. The Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) is the main…

At least 23 people were killed Sunday when a small plane crashed into houses in a densely populated area of the city of Goma in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, a regional rescue official said.The dead are believed to include all those…

With just days after Rwandan President, Paul Kagame saying that his country will raise the cost of those who plan to destabilise Rwanda, identity cards of military officers of the Rwanda Defence Forces (RDF) were Saturday found in ADF…

Former Congolese rebel leader Bosco Ntaganda will appeal a 30-year jail term handed by the International Criminal Court (ICC) for committing war crimes and crimes against humanity, his lawyers have said, adding that their client was "at…

African nations on Sunday began recognising Felix Tshisekedi as DR Congo's incoming president after the Constitutional Court upheld the vote results, rejecting claims by his main rival of an election stitch-up. The 16-nation Southern…