By Mike Sebalu President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni who doubles as the Commander-in-Chief of the Uganda People’s Defence Forces has clarified that the UPDF deployment to the East Africa Force in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of Congo is not to fight the M23 instead is geared towards keeping […]
Humanitarians issued an alert on Friday for the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), where heavy fighting continues to uproot hundreds of thousands of people in the east of the country. Renewed violent clashes between non-state armed groups and government forces have sparked the latest emergency, with 300,000 people forced […]
By Catherine Ageno The UN Secretary-General has urged leaders of the M23 rebel group in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) to respect a ceasefire agreement due to come into effect on Tuesday. In a statement released by his spokesperson, António Guterres welcomes the international and regional efforts which took place […]
Police say they have rolled out several measures to avert any hostile infiltration and attacks at the Mpondwe border point with the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The development comes hours following a terror attack in Eastern DRC at a Pentecostal Church in Lhubirira, located about 4kms after Mpondwe border […]
By AFP A bomb killed at least 10 people and wounded 39 others after ripping through a church in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo on Sunday, an attack blamed on suspected Islamists. Details of the attack are hazy, but Congolese military spokesman Antony Mualushayi said the “terrorist act” happened in […]
