Angola said it had evacuated 18 members of the MVAR and eight of the MCVA/CIRGL, plus four DRC nationals and two from the Republic of Congo. Read: Rebels enter centre of Congo’s Goma after ...

As conflict continues to escalate in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), the Catholic Church in Angola has signaled its ...

Leaders from eastern and southern Africa have called for an immediate and unconditional ceasefire in eastern Congo, where ...

But Goma, with its population size ... but since the collapse of peace talks in Angola last year, they had been preparing. M23 is the latest in a string of ethnic Tutsi-led insurgencies that ...

Angola’s President Joao Lourenco demanded the immediate withdrawal of Rwandan troops from Congolese territory on Wednesday amid fighting with the M23 rebels in Goma. Lourenco, who is the African ...

"The capture of Minova isolates Goma a little more and opens the way ... But he said efforts by Angola to mediate a lasting ceasefire and de-escalate tensions between Congo and Rwanda were at ...

A ceasefire in August failed to keep the peace and Angola-mediated talks were abruptly cancelled last month. The M23 briefly occupied Goma at the end of 2012 and was defeated by Congolese forces and ...

Map: The Economist Goma is more than 1,500km ... In December diplomatic talks led by Angola and backed by America ended in failure. Rwanda says this is because Congo would not talk to M23.

GOMA, Congo — Congo has severed diplomatic ... and Rwandan President Paul Kagame had been set to meet Sunday in Angola. Dec. 15, 2024 Rwanda’s foreign minister, Olivier Nduhungirehe, told ...

Laden with just the possessions they can carry, thousands of displaced people have reached the outskirts of the city of Goma in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, fleeing a rapid M23 rebel advance ...