Sexual violence against children in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has reached staggering proportions, with ...

Some 41,000 refugees have crossed from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) into Uganda since January, many of them ...

Heavy downpours in the Democratic Republic of Congo's capital Kinshasa have killed around 30 people while wreaking havoc ...

Nearly 3,000 people have been killed in the city of Goma in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, according to the United ...

Congolese officials and negotiators for the Rwandan-backed M23 rebels have arrived in Doha for talks to hammer out a ceasefire and end months of fighting that have raised fears of a wider regional ...

With Congress on Easter break for the next couple of weeks, much of the focus on the US-Africa relationship turns to northern and western Africa for the largest military exercise to date between the ...

A truce announced last week by AFC/M23 rebels in Walikale, in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, has collapsed after just a few days. The Congolese army now accuses the Rwandan-backed group ...

M23 and its allies have vowed to march as far as Congo’s capital, Kinshasa, about 1,600 kilometers (1,000 miles) to the east, and moving into Tshopo and Maniema would be a first major step. Keita, who ...

Rwanda’s severance of diplomatic relations with Belgium has triggered a debate about Belgium’s role in the current conflicts in Africa’s great lakes region. President Paul Kagame accused Belgium of ...

More than 7 million people have been displaced. The rebels are supported by about 4,000 troops from Rwanda, according to UN experts, and at times have vowed to march as far as Kinshasa, about 1,600km ...

The FDLR were integrated in the Congolese army coalition alongside Wazalendo militia, 10,000 Burundian troops, South African-led SADC forces, European mercenaries, and UN peacekeepers, in the ...

M23 is supported by about 4,000 soldiers from Rwanda, according to the United Nations, and has previously pledged to march to the DRC capital, Kinshasa ... The UN Human Rights Council launched ...