By Anastasios Gordon Sekandi – updated at 07:25 EAT on Wednesday, 13 July 2025 Yumbe District | HICGI — Despite arriving late in Arua on Monday evening, August 11, due to flight delays, renowned American televangelist and humanitarian Dr. Michelle Corral, alongside a team of missionaries from California, USA, embarked on a three-hour night journey…
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M23 Rebels Close In on Key DRC Town as Government Offers $5M Bounty for Leaders
Updated by Anastasios Gordon Sekandi at 04:02 EAT Monday 10 March 2025 Rebel fighters are pushing toward the critical town of Walikale, intensifying the Democratic Republic of Congo’s (DRC) ongoing conflict as government forces face internal defections and escalating violence. The M23 armed group has advanced further into the country’s mineral-rich east after capturing Goma…
South Africa and Rwanda Clash Over DR Congo Conflict
By Anastasios Gordon Sekandi – updated at 16:24 EAT Friday January 2025 South Africa and Rwanda’s already tense diplomatic relations have further deteriorated after President Cyril Ramaphosa accused the Rwandan-backed M23 rebel group of killing South African peacekeepers in eastern DR Congo. As the M23 rebels gained the upper hand on the battlefield, seizing most…
Russia Condemns M23 Rebel Actions in DR Congo, Calls for Immediate Withdrawal – UN Envoy
By Anastasios Gordon Sekandi – updated at 00:45 EAT Thursday 30 January 2025 UNITED NATIONS, January 29. /HICGI/ – Russia has strongly condemned the actions of the M23 armed group in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), demanding an immediate cessation of hostilities and the withdrawal of militants from occupied territories, Russian Permanent Representative…
Uganda on alert as situation worsens in eastern DRC
Uganda has put all the security agencies at alert of fear of what’s happening in eastern DRC and the refugees that may cross to uganda for asylum Since January, fighting between the Congolese national army and the M23 rebel group in the North Kivu Province has seen thousands of civilians displaced, with many trekking into…
UN sanctions six DRC heads of rebel groups as fighting in eastern continues
The United Nations Security Council on Tuesday sanctioned six people from five armed groups in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) as violent clashes escalate in the region between the Congolese army and M23 rebels, allegedly backed by Rwanda, a claim Kigali denies. The fighting, in a war that has lasted decades, has increased the risk of an…
20 killed due to a genocide in Western DR Congo
Fighting between ethnic communities left 11 people dead in Western Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) on Tuesday, a local authority and civil society leader said after their bodies were elected on Wednesday. The conflict between Teke and Yaka communities that started in 2022 over a land dispute caused a deterioration in the humanitarian and security…
Thousands hold protests in the Congolese capital Kinshasa against M23 rebels
By E K Benj – Updated Tuesday 05th Dec 2022 Follow us on all social media, type “HICGI News Agency” Report by Chris Ocamringa & Halligan Agade Thousands of Congolese residents staged protests in the Congolese capital Kinshasa on Sunday against the M23 rebels who have taken control of several territories in the eastern DR…
