The city’s capture by M23 means neighbouring Burundi, an ally of the DRC government, now shares a border with an area controlled by the rebels, escalating the risk of cross-border conflict

The agreement signed in Washington also highlights the Lobito Corridor. This vast project, first promoted by Joe Biden’s US administration, is regarded as transformative infrastructure intended to link the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) to the Angolan port of Lobito on the Atlantic Ocean.

Advancing from the north near the Burundian border, the M23's assault came only days after the leaders of the DRC and Rwanda signed a US-brokered peace deal in Washington.

The security crisis in eastern DRC is escalating after two rebel groups, both fighting the government, joined forces.

Streets were empty, shops shuttered and soldiers fled the eastern DR Congo city of Uvira on Wednesday, a day after a Rwanda-backed militia entered the strategic city's outskirts, prompting Burundi

According to military and security sources, the militia's fighters entered the strategic border city of Uvira at the gates of Burundi late Tuesday, after the United States and European powers urged the M23 to " immediately halt" its offensive and for Rwanda to pull its troops out of the eastern DRC.

The Council renewed restrictive measures in view of the situation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo for another year, until 12 December 2026.

The development comes just days after President Ruto witnessed the signing of the Washington Accord by Rwanda's Kagame and DRC's Tshisekedi.

A just-signed agreement aimed at ending the conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo looked to be unravelling Monday with the DRC and Burundi slamming neighbouring Rwanda after the Rwanda-backed

As Ebola in Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) declared over, International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) calls for investment in community-based surveillance