The militia that is overrunning the mineral-rich parts of eastern DR Congo now, made up mostly of Congolese Tutsis and stiffened as usual with some thousands of Rwandan and Ugandan regular troops, is ...

Testing has confirmed that an initially unidentified illness that killed more than 50 people in northwest Democratic Republic of Congo was malaria, the country's National Public Health Institute (INSP ...

The resurgence of Rwanda-backed insurgents in eastern Congo has reignited a decades-old conflict over ethnic rivalries, ...

Thousands have been killed and 700,000 displaced this year, after Rwandan troops and M23 rebels invaded eastern Congo.

The two men prosecuted for the martyrdom of a traditional chief in 2017 had their sentences reduced to 20 years in prison by the military court on March 10. The Congolese population of Masuika, in ...

Officers also stopped 627 vehicles and wrote 172 tickets. During that time, 41 people were arrested. Here are some of those incidents: February 16th — Mariano Moreno of Illinois — arrested for an ...

Kinshasa has not publicly detailed a proposal ... "I think it's certainly something that will pique people's interest in Washington, and I think it has attracted interest," said Jason Stearns ...

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He grew up in the ’90s in a home surrounded by horse paddocks when the population was about 10,000 people. In those days, driving up out of the Sunbury valley during spring, he would see ...

Police said Maldonado, who was masked, smashed the window of a parked car while two people were in the backseat. After the suspect entered the car, one of the people in the backseat managed to get ...

M23 rebels have swept through eastern Congo since the beginning of the year, seizing key cities and killing some 3,000 people in the ... far as Congo’s capital, Kinshasa, over 1,000 miles ...

On the same day, 11 people died and several dozens others were injured after explosives went off at a rally addressed by the M23. Kinshasa accused a ‘foreign army’ of being behind the explosions.