African countries appointed a trio of ex-leaders to oversee a push for peace in eastern DR Congo while an International Criminal Court (ICC) prosecutor arrived Tuesday to investigate the upsurge in ...
Unidentified illnesses in northwestern Congo have killed more than 50 people over the past five weeks, nearly half of them ...
Weeks after M23 rebels seized Goma, residents are adjusting to a new reality. While some services continue, public support appears coerced as the rebels push forward.
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) said on Tuesday that about 1 million people have been displaced since the ...
Burundi troops -- allies of Kinshasa -- were still deploying Tuesday in east DR Congo, as the UK announced it was suspending ...
KINSHASA - Three former African leaders have been appointed as facilitators of the latest regional mediation mechanism brokered by two regional blocs over the security crisis in the eastern Democratic ...
DR Congo's prime minister said Monday that "more than 7,000" people have been killed in the east of the country since January ...
As Rwanda-backed rebels closed in on eastern Congo's largest city, retreating army soldiers barged into Suzanne Amisi Wilonja ...
KINSHASA — Felix Tshisekedi, president of the Democratic Republic of Congo, will launch a unity government, his spokeswoman ...
Despite the announcement of a unilateral truce by the M23, the group continues to advance towards South Kivu. An intense battle took place in Nyiabibwe, 70 kilometres from the regional capital Bukavu.
Rich in an ore used in electronics, the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo has become a geopolitical minefield.