The Rwanda Food and Drugs Authority ordered the immediate closure of eight alcoholic beverage manufacturers on August 2, revoked all their licences, recalled at least 38 spirits brands from the market, and revoked ethanol import licences, citing a deadly public-health crisis linked to illicit alcohol

Kinshasa assumed the rotating UNSC presidency on July 1 and plans to use it to press for a first-of-its-kind binding resolution establishing global standards for mineral resource governance, directly targeting Rwanda's alleged plunder of eastern Congo's cobalt, coltan and gold

Kinshasa's application, the third attempt in 25 years, accuses Kigali of genocide, torture and sexual violence from 1996 to the present; Rwanda dismisses evidence of M23 support

Tin, tantalum, tungsten, and gold mined in the Democratic Republic of Congo fund armed groups; US and EU law require importers to trace and disclose their supply chains.

Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo's three-decade insurgency, now centered on Rwanda-backed M23 rebels holding North and South Kivu, is Africa's largest displacement crisis.

Mozambique's northernmost province hosts an IS-linked insurgency, active since 2017, that has killed 6,600+, displaced 474,000 people, and frozen a US$20 billion LNG project.

A 10 June 2026 investigation says Rubaya coltan, taxed by M23 at $4/kg, is relabelled Rwandan and sold into the world's biggest tech brands

A Seine-side monument marks France's long, incomplete reckoning, short of a formal apology

FARDC drones hit an M23 position five miles north of Goma; M23 and Wazalendo militias clash along the Masisi-Walikale border, both sides building up troops in the Kivus despite the US-brokered truce

A fifth Joint Oversight Committee met in April; the DRC-M23 Doha framework's key provisions remain unimplemented, Qatar, Togo, the US and the AU keep the process alive as fighting continues

Rwanda posted its strongest quarterly growth in years in early 2026, driven by services, industry and construction; the economy is running hot against a backdrop of M23 ceasefire negotiations with DRC that hold fragile since April talks in Switzerland

IS claimed three June IED attacks on Rwandan forces and raided Xitaxi in Muidumbe; after two months threatening southern mining sites and displacing 21,000+, the insurgents are returning to their Macomia bases