DR Congo’s failed gamble on Romanian mercenaries

[ad_1] Ian WafulaAfrica security correspondent, BBC NewsEPAIt has been a humiliating week for nearly 300 Romanian mercenaries recruited to fight on the side of the army in the Democratic Republic of Congo.Their surrender following a…

DR Congo’s President Félix Tshisekedi snubs peace talks

[ad_1] Basillioh RukangaBBC News, NairobiEPATens of thousands of people have been displaced by the fightingThe Democratic Republic of Congo's President Félix Tshisekedi will not take part in regionally brokered talks aimed at ending the rebel…

Clashes kill 17 in DR Congo’s Goma as…

[ad_1] Clashes in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo’s besieged city of Goma have killed at least 17 people and wounded nearly 370, hospital sources said on Monday (January 27, 2025), as the Congolese military…

Congo’s M23 rebels say they have taken control…

[ad_1] 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),…

Are DR Congo’s plans to build the world’s…

[ad_1] Wedaeli Chibelushi in London and Emery Makumeno in KinshasaBBC NewsMbelechi MsochiInga I and II were built in the 1970s and 1980s, while construction for Inga III was supposed to begin in 2020From a set…