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The Congo River Alliance (French: Alliance Fleuve Congo) is a political-military coalition of rebel groups and political parties led by former Independent National Electoral Commission President Corneille Nangaa that seeks to overthrow the government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).
Congo has more than 100 armed groups, mainly in the east of the central African nation of 100 million people that is roughly the size of Western Europe and has plentiful mineral supplies in the ...
Goma has a population of around 1 million and is the provincial capital of North Kivu in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). The Rwandan-backed rebel group March 23 Movement (M23), as part of their military offensive which has been ongoing since 2022, seized large amounts of territory in both the North and South Kivu provinces throughout January 2025.
Rebel group Subgroups / Affiliates Year Established Leader Notes AFRC Charles Bokande † “Je t’aime” Alliance of Patriots for a Free and Sovereign Congo (APCLS) ...
The sanctions, first reported by Reuters, target the Congo River Alliance (AFC), which the U.S. Treasury Department said in a statement was a political-military coalition launched in December.
Rwanda-backed M23 rebels in the Democratic Republic of Congo have taken over the key eastern trading town of Minova, according to various sources. The fall of the city puts the rebels within 40km ...
List of armed groups in the Democratic Republic of the Congo; A. AFDL; Alliance of Patriots for a Free and Sovereign Congo; Allied Democratic Forces; ... Congo River ...
Congo's security forces and rebel groups have agreed on a 72-hour cease-fire to de-escalate tensions in the country's eastern region near the border with Rwanda, the White House announced just ...