The M23 militia is ruling over a vast stretch of territory in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of Congo, ...

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.

Just over half the world's population shares a river or lake basin with at least one other country. To sustainably manage ...

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

A professor of global health was in Kivu when the fighting began to rage. She recounts what she and her colleagues ...

Frank, a World Vision staff member, lost two family members—Laurianne and Jean-Pierre—when the M23 siege on Goma turned their ...

The night before the rebels seized Goma, east Congo's largest city, the military command and provincial authorities fled by boat on Lake Kivu towards Bukavu without letting their soldiers know ...

Once Minova and Sake on Lake Kivu had fallen to the advancing rebels, Goma was encircled, and its capture was only a matter of time. Within days of Goma’s fall, Corneille Nangaa, the tubby, ...

United Nations, Feb 27 (IANS) Humanitarian crisis is worsening as violence escalated in three eastern provinces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), UN humanitarians ... returned from Idjwi ...

Rwanda-backed M23 rebels have captured the second-biggest city in DR Congo’s mineral-rich East ... who now have total control over the Lake Kivu region, which borders with neighbouring Rwanda. The ...