The conflict comes amid rising global tensions after Donald Trump’s election, especially between Washington and Beijing, over control of strategic minerals like those present in the Congo.

With 13 South African soldiers dead and an undisclosed number wounded, President Cyril Ramaphosa is in desperate pursuit of an urgent ceasefire to extricate the trapped troops.

The former US administration has said the government of Rwandan President Paul Kagame rebuffed a proposed peace incentive for a deal between Congo and

The United States offered to extend its signature African investment project into the troubled east of the Democratic Republic of Congo as an incentive for a peace deal, but Rwanda has backed ... from southern DRC and Zambia to Angola's Atlantic coast.

The United States offered to extend its signature African investment project into the troubled east of the Democratic Republic of Congo as an incentive for a peace deal, but Rwanda has backed away ...

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The Democratic Republic of the Congo's (DRC) vast mineral resources, essential for global industries, are central to the escalating conflict in the region, with Western demand exacerbating local tensions.

The Southern African Development Community (SADC) will hold an extraordinary summit in Harare, Zimbabwe's capital, on Thursday to discuss the security situation in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC),

The former US administration says Rwandan President Paul Kagame's government rebuffed a proposed peace incentive for a deal between DR Congo and Rwanda. It involved expanding the Lobito Corridor to the eastern DRC.

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On increasing electricity generation through an energy mix, President Samia said that Tanzania’s current electricity generation stands at 3,431.20 Megawatts, (MW), with 58 per cent sourced from hydropower, 35 per cent from natural gas, and 7 per cent from other sources.

The seventh meeting of the Global Forum of Cities for Circular Economy (GFCCE) has officially begun in Johannesburg, South Africa, with delegates from 18 African nations in attendance.