The Democratic Republic of Congo has been mired in conflict for years. As fresh fighting surges in the east, the roots of ...

Malawi's President Lazarus Chakwera has instructed the country's defense forces to begin withdrawing troops from the ...

A single image captures the grim task facing those who needed to find space for the dead after a spasm of violence in Central ...

The Congo River runs through the Republic of Congo, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Central African Republic, ...

The Democratic Republic of the Congo is no stranger to civil conflicts. But the latest advances made by M23, a rebel coalition, capturing the mineral-rich city of Goma, is a humiliating setback ...

The Democratic Republic of Congo will present a motion to the United Nations Human Rights Council seeking an investigation into what it called "mass violations" of rights in the city of Goma, its ...

Rwanda-backed rebels who seized a major city in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have declared a unilateral ceasefire on humanitarian grounds. The M23 rebel group announced on Monday that ...

Former President Uhuru Kenyatta has defended the Nairobi Peace Process on the Democratic Republic of Congo which he described as "temporarily sidelined", attributing its slow progress to a lack of ...

Its enchanting and alluring landscape ought to be the nearest ... as an embarrassment of mineral riches making the Democratic Republic of Congo potentially the richest country in the world.

Feb. 4 (UPI) --Rebels occupying the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo city of Goma called a unilateral pause in the fighting, but the government dismissed the cease-fire as a stunt designed to ...

As M23 rebels in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo advance towards Bukavu, tensions rise between regional armies. Rwanda-backed M23 faces Burundian troops, escalating risks of regional conflict.

The instability in eastern Congo is not just a national issue—it has ramifications for the entire East African region ...