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Trump’s Mineral Deals Could Bring Peace in Congo March 26, 2025

"Your election has ushered in the golden age for America," wrote a supplicant trying to curry favor with President Donald J. Trump last month. The letter, which was reported by the Wall Street Journal on Wednesday, did not come from a sycophantic fol...

Mapping the Human Toll of the Conflict in DR Congo March 24, 2025

East Congo Ceasefire in Trouble as Rebels Stay In Strategic Town March 24, 2025

Conflict in Eastern Congo March 19, 2025

M23 Rebels Withdraw From Congo Peace Talks Citing EU Sanctions March 18, 2025

Rwanda, Belgium Cut Ties Over Dr Congo Conflict March 17, 2025

Congo Weighs Attending Talks With M23 in Angola March 14, 2025

M23 & Rwanda Are Trying To Redraw the Map March 14, 2025

Will offers of resource wealth to the US and other powers help bring militia violence to heel in the Democratic Republic of Congo before its too late? ...

Mineral Trade Did Not Cause Conflict in the Congo March 14, 2025

The surge in violence in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo has some commentators blaming a familiar scapegoat: mineral trade and American technology companies whose products contain coltan and other “conflict minerals.” Eastern Congo is rich i...

Southern African Bloc to Withdraw Troops From Congo in Phases March 13, 2025

U.S.-Saudi Cooperation Could Fortify Critical Mineral Supply Chains. March 13, 2025

President Trump returned to office facing a weakened defense industrial base, strained by the Ukraine war and threatened by China’s grip on critical inputs. Dependence on competitors like China for materials that power essential commercial and milita...

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Angola Will Attempt to Broker Direct Talks Between Congo and M23 March 12, 2025

U.S. Picked the Wrong Side in Central Africa March 11, 2025

The United States and the United Kingdom responded to the outbreak of war in eastern Congo late last month by slapping sanctions on Rwanda‘s defense minister and the spokesman for Congo’s M23 insurgent group. The State Department’s move was counterpr...

Congo Refugees Pour Into Burundi, Conditions Dire, Says UN March 07, 2025

Major War Brews in Central Africa March 05, 2025

The fall of Goma, the administrative center of the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s (DRC) North Kivu Province, to the Rwanda-backed M23 rebels in late January has significantly upped the ante in the country’s longstanding unrest. What had until now...

Another Mystery Disease Outbreak in Democratic Republic of Congo March 04, 2025

Congo Army Desertion Trials Spotlight a Force in Tatters March 03, 2025

How Far Will Rwanda Go in Congo? March 03, 2025

Amid Western Inaction, Kigali Is Carving Up Its Neighbor and Reigniting a Regional War ...

Violence, Minerals, and the Inevitable in Central Africa February 26, 2025

In January, the rebel group M23 captured Goma, the largest city in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo. The ethnic Tutsi militants, who have been intermittently fighting the DRC government for years, restarted their rebellion in 2021 and hav...

Fighting in Congo Has Killed 7,000 Since January, DRC PM Says February 24, 2025

Advance of Rwanda-Backed Rebels in Congo Threatens Regional Peace February 22, 2025

In Congo, 70 Christians Beheaded in Church: What We Know February 21, 2025

Congo Army Retreat From Bukavu Leads to Clashes With Allied Militias February 18, 2025

M23 Troops Advance Into DR Congo’s Second City February 17, 2025

Looting in Eastern Congo’s Bukavu as M23 Rebels Reach Suburbs February 15, 2025