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Some member nations have not met their financial duties in terms of paying the community as required, but no affirmative action has been taken against such governments as per Article 143 of the...

Earlier this month, the East African Regional Force (EACRF) in the DRC announced it was planning to conduct joint operations together with the United Nations... 08.04.2023, Sputnik International

His lawyers want Judges declare him unfit to stand trial.

Around 20 people have been killed in an attack in eastern DR Congo, with sources blaming rebels affiliated with the Islamic State jihadist group.

New massacre in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo, about twenty civilians were killed Friday afternoon, in an attack attributed to the ADF (Allied Democratic Forces), affiliated with the Islamic State group. "I have just received 19 bodies, all killed by machete," Jules Kambale, embalmer at the morgue of Oicha hospital, told AFP. The ADF is behind the predominantly Muslim Ugandan rebels who have taken root since the mid-1990s in eastern DRC.

The 15-day extension took effect on Sunday, according to Mishapi Voice Radio.

Ruto has so far visited, or met, with leaders from Uganda, DR Congo, South Sudan, Ethiopia, Tanzania and Burundi.

A senior military officer in UPDF told this publication that the soldiers had successfully deployed at their respective posts in the DRC

An official in the village of Bulwa in North Kivu province said the death toll was likely to rise.

South Sudanese soldiers arrived in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo on Sunday, an AFP journalist saw, joining a regional military force in an area battered by the M23 rebellion.