By E. K Benjamin – Updated at 0304 EAT on Wednesday 28th May 2025 Kampala, Uganda – On Tuesday, Uganda’s Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Hon. John Mulimba, warmly welcomed dignitaries at the opening ceremony of the 12th High-Level Regional Oversight Mechanism (ROM) Summit 2025. In his address, Minister Mulimba expressed heartfelt appreciation for…
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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…
EAC – SADC Leaders Meet to Solve DRC Crisis.
African Heads of State are attending the East Africa Commission -EAC Southern African Development Community- SADC joint summit in Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania. The Summit is focusing on the situation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo- DRC. Uganda’s President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni earlier proposed to the summit that DRC’s President Felix Tshisekedi should speak…
Congo Rebels Close In on Eastern City of Goma, Forcing Thousands to Flee.
The M23 rebel group has intensified its advance on the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), creating widespread panic and forcing over 100,000 people to flee their homes. The insurgents have made significant progress in recent days, with heavy fighting erupting on Thursday in Sake, a town just 20 kilometers from Goma, the region’s…
Africa: Daniel Chapo Sworn in as Mozambique’s New President Amid Opposition Boycott
By Anastasios Gordon Sekandi – 09:12, Thursday, 16 Jan, 2025. Daniel Chapo has officially been sworn in as the President of Mozambique, taking office under a cloud of political tension as the opposition parties boycotted the ceremony. The boycott reflects growing dissatisfaction among opposition groups, who have alleged irregularities in the recent election process. The…
Kagame has expressed his displeasure with SADC’s diplomatic blunder.
by ronald sserwadda The SADC Mission in the DRC (SAMIDRC) is tasked with targeting armed groups in eastern DRC who refuse to lay down arms. M23 has been identified as one of the biggest threats. Rwanda’s President Paul Kagame, again, expressed his frustration about how Southern African Development Community (SADC) member states deployed troops…
African Union move to send troops to Dr Congo.
African Union considered it necessary to start giving physical and financial support to Democratic Republic of Congo.overruling protestations from Rwanda, which saw support for them as a threat. The Southern African Development Community Mission (SAMIDRC) was deployed on December 15 last year. Following the endorsement, the African Union Commission is required to provide necessary logistical…
SADC Approves Deployment of Troops to DRC
By Andreas Thomas The Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) on Monday approved the deployment of a regional force to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) to help restore peace and security in the eastern part of that country. The decision was taken following the extraordinary summit of the Organ Troika of heads of state and…
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