Grieving families buried victims of a devastating fire in Bukavu, eastern DRC, on Monday, after the blaze killed at least 29 people, most of them schoolchildren, and injured dozens.

Rwandan President Paul Kagame accused the international community of mishandling the eastern DRC crisis and failing to address its root causes, arguing that sanctions and outside interventions have compounded a conflict that has persisted for three decades.

The Ambassador of the Democratic Republic of Congo to Namibia, Christian Katoto, joined Congolese in Namibia to pray and commemorate the National Day of Genocide.

Thousands of Congolese were killed and buried in mass graves since 1996 in what is known as 30 years of bloodshed in Eastern Congo.

DRC President Felix Tshisekedi hinted at a potential third term “if people want me” during a World Press Freedom Day event in Kinshasa.

“I haven’t sought a third term, but if the people want me to have one, I will accept it,” he said.

Locals in Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) questioned their government's decision to agree to receive 'third-country' deportees from the US, raising concerns over the 'fragile' security conditions in the war-torn country.

Footage captured on Monday shows general views of the streets of Goma.

President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) Felix Tshisekedi called the acknowledgement by Rwanda of 'security coordination' with the AFC/M23 group a 'major turning point' in his address on Sunday in Kinshasa.

A specialised committee meeting of defense experts of the International Conference on the Great Lakes Region opened in Livingstone, Zambia, to discuss the escalating security and humanitarian crisis in eastern DRC.
 

Congolese in Uvira came out onto the streets on Saturday, opening businesses and cleaning up streets and infrastructure after the M23 group advanced into the strategic city in DRC's South Kivu.

Thousands of Congolese refugees arrived in Burundi on Saturday, after renewed violence linked to the M23 group in the Democratic Republic of Congo's North and South Kivu provinces. 

Political Analyst Marius Kudumo, while weighing in on the death sentence of former President Joseph Kabila, noted that the ruling marks a first in SADC.

 Dr. Kudumo believes that such matters should be determined by an impartial and competent court of law rather than a military tribunal.