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Congo’s Peace Negotiations Fall Through
Foreign Policy
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August 20, 2025
Welcome to Foreign Policy’s Africa Brief. The highlights this week: Fighting ramps up in eastern Congo as peace talks fall through, Mali’s junta arrests generals and a French national over an alleged destabilization plot, and a toxic spill at a...
AFRICA/DR CONGO - No progress in Doha on the peace agreement between the Kinshasa
Fides
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August 19, 2025
Tuesday, 19 August 2025 peace Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) – Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - No progress has been made in the talks in Doha, Qatar, which were supposed to culminate in an agreement yesterday, August 18, between the government of the...
As Congo peace deadline slips, Prévot pushes for African role on visit to region
Belga News Agency
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August 19, 2025
Belgian foreign minister Maxime Prévot has urged stronger involvement from African nations and the African Union in efforts to end fighting in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). His appeal came on Monday, as he began a regional tour,...
Belgium’s Congo trip highlights mineral stakes amid rebel-controlled region
Brussels Signal
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August 19, 2025
Belgium’s foreign minister Maxime Prévot is due to visit Congo in the next few days for peace talks and discussions on mining governance, an agenda that connects conflict in eastern Congo with Europe’s technology supply chains. His stop in...
M23-DR Congo peace talks in Doha stalled: What next?
St. Kitts Gazette
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August 19, 2025
The rebel group M23 and the government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) have failed to sign a final peace accord scheduled for Monday after the rebels accused the Congolese army of breaking an earlier agreement intended to lead to a...
Mudavadi moves to ease DRC concerns over Goma diplomatic nomination
Kenya Broadcasting Corporation
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August 19, 2025
Kenya reaffirms respect for DRC sovereignty, outlines due process in diplomatic posting Prime Cabinet Secretary and Cabinet Secretary for Foreign and Diaspora Affairs, Musalia Mudavadi, has taken steps to alleviate concerns expressed by the...
Islamic state-backed rebels massacre 52 civilians in eastern congo
Daijiworld News
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Daijiworld Media Network - Kinshasa Kinshasa, Aug 19: At least 52 civilians, including women and children, were brutally killed by Islamic State-backed Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) rebels in the Beni and Lubero regions of eastern Democratic...
Humanitarian day: Despatches from Haiti and the Democratic Republic of the Congo
World Food Programme
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Hot meals are distributed in the Delmas 33 in Port-au-Prince - WFP and its partners waste no opportunity to enter hard-to-reach neighbourhoods. Photo: WFP/Luc Junior Segur Haiti: ‘I wish more people could see what I see’ By Pedro Rodrigues, WFP...
Congo and M23 rebels miss deadline to reach Doha peace deal
Regional Media News - Iowa
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August 18, 2025
KINSHASA (Reuters) -The Congolese government and M23 rebels have missed Monday’s deadline to reach a peace agreement in Doha, raising fears that tensions between the two parties might derail talks and reverse progress made to end the conflict....
ISIS-linked rebels massacre 52 civilians in Congo
Shafaq News
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2025-08-18T23:08:38+00:00 font Enable Reading Mode A- A A+ Shafaq News – Kinshasa At least 52 civilians have been killed in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo by fighters from the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), a group aligned with ISIS, the UN...
DRC rejects Ruto's newly nominated envoy to rebel-led Goma region
TUKO
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August 16, 2025
President William Ruto's pick of a consul general in Goma has been met with a vehement objection from the DRC government Through an official dispatch from the State House, Nairobi, Ruto proposed Judy Kiaria to head the consular services in the...
ISIL-backed rebels killed at least 52 people in eastern DR Congo, UN says
Yahoo News
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Rebels backed by ISIL (ISIS) have killed at least 52 civilians in the Democratic Republic of the Congo this month, according to the United Nations peacekeeping mission (MONUSCO) in the country, as both the DRC army and Rwandan-backed M23 rebel...
Rebels wielding machetes and hoes kill at least 52 in eastern DRC
BusinessLIVE
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Kinshasa — Islamic State-backed rebels armed with machetes and hoes have killed at least 52 civilians in the Beni and Lubero areas of eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) in recent days, UN and local officials said. The Allied Democratic...
Kenya clarifies nomination of Consul-General to Goma amid DRC concerns
Citizen TV Kenya
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August 18, 2025
The Government of Kenya has moved to clarify the nomination of a new Consul-General to Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), following concerns raised by Kinshasa over the diplomatic process. In a statement issued on Monday, Prime Cabinet...
MFA moves to calm Kinshasa over Goma Consul-General nomination
Capital FM Kenya
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August 18, 2025
NAIROBI, Kenya, Aug 18 — Kenya has moved to clarify the nomination of a Consul-General to Goma, following formal concerns raised by the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), saying the process remains subject to parliamentary approval and subsequent...
Congo condemns Kenya’s Goma consul move as breach of international law
Firstpost
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August 16, 2025
Congo has rejected Kenya’s appointment of a consul general in Goma, accusing Nairobi of breaching international law and bypassing diplomatic protocol The Congolese government rejected Kenya’s appointment of a consul general in the conflict-torn...
DR Congo government rejects Kenya's naming of consul to occupied Goma
Africanews
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August 17, 2025
The Congolese government on Saturday rejected Kenya’s appointment of a consul general to the city of Goma, describing the decision as “inappropriate”. Goma, located in eastern Congo, has been at the centre of a conflict between the Congolese...
QMP expands meat, poultry distribution in the Democratic Republic of Congo
Food Business Africa Magazine
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August 14, 2025
DRC – Quality Meat Packers (QMP), a Kenyan-based meat processing company, is introducing its full range of meat, poultry, and processed products to the Democratic Republic of Congo through a partnership with retailer Kin Marché. The rollout begins...
New DRC Mines Minister Louis Watum Strengthens Ties with China
Skillings Mining Review - Florida
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August 18, 2025
DRC’s New Mines Minister Louis Watum Meets Chinese Ambassador to Bolster Mining Cooperation Louis Watum Kabamba, newly appointed Minister of Mines in the Suminwa II government, officially took office on Wednesday, August 13, 2025, succeeding...
DR Congo-M23 peace plan: Will a political solution take hold?
Yeni Safak
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August 18, 2025
After decades of brutal conflict in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, hopes for peace are once again on the horizon. The Congolese government and a coalition of rebel groups led by M23 are expected to sign a comprehensive peace agreement...