Gaps in securing Uganda’s embassy in Kinshasa are to blame for the attacks that forced the diplomats into hiding on January 28, Daily Monitor has learnt.

The Ugandan Health Ministry has confirmed the death of a nurse following the outbreak of Ebola Virus Disease in the country. The permanent secretary of

Goma, the capital of North Kivu, is both a strategic economic hub and a trade conduit to Rwanda. Rwanda frames its involvement as a necessary step to neutralise FDLR, an armed group with historical ti

Shifting calculations by sponsors of the M23 rebel group risk triggering another war in the Great Lakes Region, underscoring importance of African mediators and global partners acting quickly to stem the fighting.

Economic rivalry and ethnic tensions lay at the center of the long-simmering conflict in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, where the strategically located city of Goma has recently fallen to r

The capture of the city has cut off the supply of goods to North Kivu, an emerging market for East African Community (EAC) member states.

A nurse has died from Ebola in the Ugandan capital Kampala, the health ministry said Thursday. “An outbreak of Sudan Ebola Virus Disease has been confirmed in Kampala, Uganda following confirmation from three national reference laboratories,” the ministry’s permanent secretary Diana Atwine told reporters.

Democratic Republic of Congo's M23 rebels are moving south towards Bukavu, the capital of South Kivu province, in what appears to be an attempt to expand their area of control in the country's east after capturing the city of Goma.

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | State Minister for Regional Cooperation John Mulimba has confirmed that Uganda’s Embassy in Embassy in Kinshasa was attacked by a riotous mob. He said non of the staff at the embassy was hurt.

KAMPALA, UGANDA | Xinhua | Uganda said on Tuesday that the United Nations has evacuated part of its staff from Goma in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) following intense fighting. Henry Okello Oryem,

Goma is a lucrative hub because of its niche to valuable deposits of gold, coltan and tin which are minerals essential in the global supply chain for electronics and industrial manufacturing.