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Massad Boulos, President Donald Trump’s senior adviser for Africa policy, told Reuters on Thursday that the administration wants the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Rwanda to sign a peace treaty with each other — and then sign Ukraine-style minerals deals with the United States.

Representatives of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) met in Qatar with M23 insurgents last week to discuss a ceasefire.

The United Nations marked Monday, April 7 as the 31st anniversary of the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, in which a million men, women, and children from the Tutsi tribe were slaughtered, along with members of the rival Hutu tribe who spoke out against the bloodbath. 

The Department of Government Efficiency’s (DOGE) latest round of cuts featured 80 contracts totaling hundreds of millions of dollars, including $2.1 million for a “senior advisor in the Democratic Republic of Congo.”

Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) President Felix Tshisekedi wrote a letter to President Donald Trump in which he offered extensive mineral rights to the U.S. Sovereign Wealth Fund in exchange for military assistance against the Rwanda-backed insurgent group M23.

The World Health Organization says a mysterious illness in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has spread to another village.

India’s Mines Secretary V.L. Kantha Rao said on Thursday that Indian mining companies are exploring possible investments in Zambia, Australia, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).

Judith Suminwa, prime minister of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), told a meeting of the U.N. Human Rights Council (UNHRC) on Monday that roughly 7,000 people have been killed in fighting since January as a rebel offensive swept through the eastern Congo.

Open Doors UK, a human rights group focused on persecution against Christians, reported on Tuesday that a militant group affiliated with the Islamic State (ISIS) took 70 Christian villages hostage, marched them into their church, and then murdered them by cutting their heads off.

M23 insurgents in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) captured two more towns and reached the airport in the provincial capital of Bukavu on Friday, raising fears of a humanitarian disaster and criminal abuse of civilians.

The United Nations estimated on Wednesday that almost 3,000 people have been killed during the conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).

Uganda has reportedly dispatched another thousand soldiers into the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), joining a rapidly-escalating battle in which a vicious Rwanda-supported insurgency called M23 has captured a regional capital and set its sights on the seat of government in Kinshasa.

President Donald Trump said on Thursday that the conflict between Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is a “very serious problem.”

Over half a million people have reportedly been displaced by the battle raging between Congolese security forces and M23 rebels for the city of Goma.

At least 13 U.N. peacekeepers and other foreign soldiers were killed in heavy fighting near the city of Goma in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) on Sunday, as the M23 insurgent group closed in on the strategically vital city.

The World Health Organization (W.H.O.) launched a campaign on Thursday urging the world to invest $1.5 billion into its emergency fund – a separate pool of money from its regular operations funding intended to address health crises around the world.

A court in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) on Tuesday sentenced three Chinese nationals to seven years in jail for participating in illegal gold mining operations.

The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) on Tuesday filed criminal complaints against subsidiaries of electronics giant Apple in France and Belgium, accusing them of using “blood minerals” sourced to mines controlled by armed gangs in the eastern DRC.

The United Nations Human Rights Council held its annual membership elections on Wednesday, resulting in the admission of several human rights violating regimes such as Qatar, Ethiopia, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), and Bolivia.

The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) handed out 37 death sentences in connection to the May coup attempt.

A jailbreak attempt at the overcrowded Makala Central Prison in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo, turned into a bloodbath on Monday.

Prosecutors in the Democratic Republic of the Congo seek the death penalty for 50 alleged coup plotters, including three Americans.

The World Health Organization on Wednesday took the long-discussed step of declaring a global health emergency over the monkeypox or “mpox” outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), which has begun spreading into neighboring African nations.

World Health Organization (W.H.O.) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus may declare an international health emergency for monkeypox.

A militant group known as the Cooperative for the Development of the Congo (CODECO) attacked a gold mine linked to China on Wednesday.

Researchers in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) warned on Tuesday that a new and deadly strain of monkeypox, or “mpox,” is spreading among “sex workers” in the conflict-prone eastern part of the country.

The armed forces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) said on Sunday that a coup attempt in the capital of Kinshasa was thwarted.

The Congo has sent Apple a cease-and-desist order threatening legal action unless the tech giant stops using allegedly illegally exported minerals.

“Poster boy” for the anti-deportation movement who held a “migrants are not criminals” sign at a protest has pleaded guilty to rape.

The Associated Press obtained internal documents from the World Health Organization (W.H.O.), it claimed on Wednesday, that showed the agency was offering a paltry $250 compensation to women sexually abused by its employees in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).

Rural communities in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) are facing an “environmental catastrophe” as mining for cobalt and other minerals necessary for manufacturing batteries poisons their land and water with toxic chemicals, experts told Congress on Tuesday.

The World Health Organization (W.H.O.) on Monday issued a report on its effort to investigate allegations of sexual misconduct against its staffers around the world.

UNICEF warns that violence against children has escalated to horrifying levels in the war-torn eastern provinces of the Congo.

Ugandan police on Sunday announced the arrest of a suspect in connection with a plot to bomb a church in the capital city of Kampala. Five more arrests were announced on Tuesday, and more explosive devices were reportedly recovered, suggesting a major terrorist attack linked to an Islamist insurgent group called the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) had been thwarted.

A mining convoy in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo was attacked by unknown assailants, killing four, including two Chinese nationals.

The army of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) on Wednesday used force to disperse a protest against the United Nations in the eastern city of Goma, killing at least 43 people and injuring 56, plus 158 arrests.