At least 12 killed in attack by Ugandan rebels in eastern DRC

After the defeat of the Tutsi-dominated M23 last year, the focus shifted to the Forces for Democratic Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR), a Hutu rebel faction that has destabilised the Eastern Congo for two decades.

After several months of relative calm, the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo is again experiencing extreme violence.

Nineteen fighters from Uganda's Lord's Resistance Army surrender following an offensive against the rebel group in the Central African Republic, the army says.

Four people killed in eastern Tanzania bus accident
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ARUSHA, Tanzania, Sept. 8 (Xinhua) -- A bus accident in eastern Tanzania's region of Morogoro on Monday killed four people and injured dozens seriously. Morogoro Regional Police Commander Faustine Shilogile told Xinhua that the bus christened Airbus ...

The Congolese army, with the support of UN troops, launches an offensive against Rwandan rebels blamed for much of the violence in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of Congo.

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Rebels Abduct Six Muslim Clerics in DRC
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Unidentified rebels abducted six Tanzanian Muslim clerics and their driver in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, religious authorities said on Wednesday. The imams and their Congolese driver were kidnapped on Sunday between the villages of ...
Muslim preachers from Tanzania kidnapped in DR CongoZee News
Rwandan rebels abduct 6 Tanzanian imams in DRC: SourceAnadolu Agency

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Uganda has issued a three-month ultimatum to Democratic Republic of Congo to relocate hundreds of ex-rebel fighters or they will be handed to the United Nations, an army spokesman said Thursday.

Anti-government rebels in South Sudan attack the key town of Bor, after Uganda threatened to fight them if a Tuesday ceasefire deadline was not met.

Washington, Wednesday. The government of the Democratic Republic of Congo “owes it to its people” to end the threat posed by Rwandan Hutu rebels hiding in its eastern provinces, the outgoing US special envoy said Tuesday.