The Latest Breaking News from Wazalendo

Nestled in the green hills of Masisi territory in Congo, the artisanal Rubaya mining site hums with the sound of generators, as hundreds of men labor by hand to extract coltan, a key mineral crucial for producing modern electronics and defense technology

M23 fighters on Friday advanced further on several fronts in DR Congo's volatile east as international pressure mounted on Rwanda to stop backing the armed group and halt the fighting.

Self-defence militias called the Wazalendo are taking up arms against the M23 group that’s launching attacks in DRC.

In response to the deepening crisis in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), the United Nations Security Council established a panel of independent experts in 2023 to examine the situation and provide it with options to address the conflict. In June 2024, the UN released the panel’s final report.

The United States has accused Rwanda of involvement in a deadly attack on a camp for displaced people in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, a claim dismissed as "absurd" by Kigali on Saturday.

EU plans to secure supplies for green revolution from Rwanda likely to support smuggling of conflict minerals from DRC.

The DRC, Africa’s second largest country by size, has seen years of instability, part of which it blames on Rwanda.

Conflict and insecurity have dominated campaign discourse in the DRC and could stop displaced people from voting.

A Congolese military court has sentenced a colonel to death after soldiers fired upon a crowd of protesters earlier this year