The heavily armed rebels do not act alone. They are backed by neighbouring Rwanda, according to the UN and the US. Rwanda ...

The Banyene family’s return to Sake, a town in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), was far from a homecoming.

Since January, however, the rapid conquest and occupation of a huge area of the Democratic Republic of Congo by Rwanda and ...

Sixteen-year-old Darkuna watched, terrified, as six gun-wielding men ransacked her home. She would become one of many ...

Six weeks after Rwanda-backed rebels captured the eastern Congolese cities of Goma and Bukavu, the region is facing a setback ...

African leaders on Thursday announced the withdrawal of thousands of troops from South Africa, Tanzania and Malawi who were ...

African leaders on Thursday announced the withdrawal of thousands of troops from South Africa, Tanzania and Malawi who were ...

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More than a month after rebels captured Goma, the capital of DRC’s North Kivu province, humanitarian workers dispute the UN’s ...

Is a deadly past replaying for Congolese as M23 rebels march on Kinshasa amid presence of Rwandan and Ugandan troops?

The Rwanda-backed M23 armed group and the allied Alliance Fleuve Congo have threatened, detained, and attacked journalists, critics, and civil society activists since capturing Goma in January.

Mine shafts snake under the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo's mountains, but instead of the Congolese government their ...