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East African CommunityPolitics & Policy

DRC’s latest peace deal is unravelling, and it isn’t the first. What is going wrong?

Despite almost three decades of peace efforts and interventions at local, regional and international levels, the mineral-rich east of the country remains unstable
Rwanda's President Paul Kagame meets with President Félix Tshisekedi of the Democratic Republic of Congo Ahead of the 74th UN General Assembly, 24 September 2019
CommoditiesPolitics & Policy

Why bartering Africa’s minerals for security is a bad idea

A US-brokered peace deal between the DRC and Rwanda binds the two nations in a worrying arrangement: one where a country signs away its mineral resources to a superpower in return for vague promises of security
Four men working in an open-pit mine in the Democratic Republic of Congo
Politics & Policy

Four things every peace treaty needs, and how the DRC–Rwanda deal measures up

One agreement is rarely enough to resolve a complex conflict; deals are often part of a series, sometimes between different actors. They often refer to previously concluded ones, and will be referred to by subsequent ones
Four officers from a joint police force comprising elements of the United Nations Police and the Congolese National Police, armed with guns and batons, patrol a busy area of Goma, a city in the North Kivu province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, in December 2011.
East African CommunityPolitics & Policy

Will the US-brokered deal between Rwanda and DRC will pave the way for peace?

Any peace efforts must acknowledge the political nature of the crisis in eastern DRC, including the consequences of the failed power-sharing agreement between Kabila and Tshisekedi
Five men wearing combat fatigues and carrying guns
East African CommunityPolitics & Policy

What are the chances of success for the US-brokered peace deal signed by DRC and Rwanda?

On 27 June 2025, the foreign ministers of Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) signed a new peace agreement under the auspices of the United States
Trump Rwanda Democratic Republic of Congo ministers
Politics & Policy

M23 rebels targeted civilians in Goma, HRW says

The absence of reports of fighting between the warring parties and the nature of the wounds indicate that M23 fighters deliberately executed those in their custody, says HRW
Five men wearing combat fatigues and carrying guns
Politics & Policy

The interests at the heart of Uganda’s involvement in eastern DRC

Uganda's ambiguous and often tumultuous relations with DR Congo have made headlines recently, with the UN last month accusing security officials of actively supporting the M23 rebel group
UPDF combat vehicles and soldiers cross to Burasi in the Democratic Republic of Congo using the newly installed ferry at the Haibale landing point on the Semliki River in February 2022. Presiding over the opening ceremony at the Burasi landing site in DRC, the Operation Shujja commander, Major General Kayanja Muhanga, noted that the crossing into Congo using this access route marks the beginning of the second phase of the operation. Maj. Gen. Kayanja revealed that the road from Burasi to Boga, a stretch of about 50km that was previously impassable, is being worked on jointly by both the UPDF and the FARDC (Congolese national army)."
OpinionPolitics & Policy

Rwanda genocide: why Tutsis remain at the centre of eastern DRC conflict 30 years on

Governments in both Kigali and Kinshasa continue to play their part in subverting reconciliation to end tensions and conflicts in the east of the DRC triggered by the 1994 Rwandan genocide
Six Banyamulenge women in the Democratic Republic of Congo being interviewed by a media house
Politics & Policy

DRC’s anger at West over M23 justified, but government failings understated

Anti-Western protests in Kinshasa over the war in eastern DRC allow the government to blame the West after five years of limited progress, at best, in resolving the crisis
Rwanda's President Paul Kagame meets with President Félix Tshisekedi of the Democratic Republic of Congo Ahead of the 74th UN General Assembly, 24 September 2019
Energy, Oil & Gas

Why East African countries should rethink their nuclear power ambitions

Costs of building, maintaining, and later decommissioning a nuclear power plant make it one of the most expensive forms of electricity generation
The Dukovany nuclear power station near Dukovany in the Czech Republic. Nuclear power plants are among a number of new energy proposals in four East African countries. Earlier this year, Uganda announced plans to build a 2,000MW nuclear power plant 150km north of Kampala, with the first 1,000MW coming online by 2031. Rwanda also recently signed a deal to build a nuclear reactor, while Kenya and Tanzania have made more or less similar announcements. While it is tempting in many ways for these countries to pursue nuclear power, there are several risks to choosing the nuclear path, the biggest of which is financial.
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