Ongoing violence and instability, including fighting by M23 rebels, has forced millions of people to flee their homes.

The resurgence of the M23 (March 23 movement) rebel group has once again drawn global attention to the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC ... for Mongabay. Map by Joel Masselink.

The summit approved the outcomes of a joint EAC-SADC Ministerial meeting held in Harare, Zimbabwe, in March, including a detailed roadmap ... crisis in eastern DRC. It has also been reported ...

They also endorsed the joint EAC-SADC Ministerial meeting outcomes, held earlier in Harare, Zimbabwe, which laid out a detailed road-map with short, medium, and long-term solutions to the crisis.