Carlos Mureithi

The DRC government and the Congo River Alliance group of rebels that includes M23 say they have agreed to work towards ending the eastern DRC conflict through peaceful means after talks facilitated by Qatar. https://t.co/QTkQzJ2MhH

“It’s hard to go to bed at night knowing this information.” A documentary, The Empty Grave, shines a delicate light on the long search by Tanzanian families for their ancestors' remains that German colonialists took to Europe for racist experiments. https://t.co/btUPNJb6ie

“The people who consume it love it. The people who compete against it hate it.” The fast growth of the China Square retail chain poses a dilemma for Kenya's government over how to balance consumers’ love for bargains with the interests of local sellers. https://t.co/BOc7zhzLp5

“What we’re doing – scene by scene, story by story, laughter by laughter, tear by tear – is healing bits of this common body we call a nation.” Too Early for Birds, a theatre series, draws on history to inspire young Kenyans to shape the country's future https://t.co/xXKTZkoATh

A new report by @HakiDefenders and @sheffielduni says many people displaced from their homes in Uganda for the construction of the East African Crude Oil Pipeline to Tanzania were inadequately rehoused or compensated https://t.co/JGu1R5SODy

Forced to leave displacement camps and return to their homes when the M23 rebel group entered the eastern DRC city of Goma, Congolese find villages with houses in ruins, and no way to make a living https://t.co/lo4LqfA6YO

Why the arrest of First Vice President Riek Machar of South Sudan poses a serious threat to the power-sharing agreement between him and President Salva Kiir https://t.co/q4NGFT2Hnz

“Today the flag is raised, the palace is back and the journey continues until victory is complete.” The Sudanese military retakes the presidential palace in Khartoum in a highly symbolic battlefield victory over the RSF group in the country’s civil war https://t.co/jivcdWCXKW

M23 rebels take control of the eastern Congo town of Walikale, defying calls for a ceasefire by the presidents of Rwanda and the DRC https://t.co/tf8BA5v1Z0

“It’s so sad that people are dying, others are disappearing, and families are being separated.” People who fled to Burundi from the fighting in eastern DRC recount their desperate attempts to escape the advance of M23 rebels https://t.co/5ZOWBFZdhh

Prison escapes involving thousands of convicts during the chaos of fighting in eastern DRC, where the M23 rebel group has captured two cities over the past two months, cause public alarm https://t.co/DWQHyFsckv

“I was lying on my bed at home, near Katana. All of a sudden, a bullet hit me [in the shin] and I started bleeding.” Patients in Bukavu describe how they sustained injuries during the chaotic withdrawal of the Congolese army before M23 rebels marched in https://t.co/qojzO05pMK

Several people killed and dozens injured in explosions at a mass rally held by M23 in Bukavu, the eastern DRC city that the rebel group captured this month https://t.co/3yIRwgP69C

DRC Prime Minister Judith Suminwa says fighting in the country's east has killed about 7,000 people since January https://t.co/iicrDUHxSE

UN human rights office says M23 rebels executed three children in Bukavu, the eastern DRC city that the militia captured last week https://t.co/DluuG1Uy0v

M23 rebels capture Bukavu, the capital of South Kivu province in the Democratic Republic of the Congo https://t.co/gB0HEvQPJ4

M23 rebels enter Bukavu, the capital of South Kivu province in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, a few weeks after capturing the city of Goma https://t.co/Lr058GeK8n