This M23 advance is the gravest escalation in more than a decade of the long-running conflict in eastern Congo, rooted in the ...

OP-ED. American researcher Jason K. Stearns condemns inaction on the part of Western countries in the face of the offensive ...

As Rwanda-backed rebels strolled through the streets of eastern Democratic Republic of Congo's second-largest city, President Felix Tshisekedi's office claimed it was actually still controlled by his ...

Interview - Marcus Bachmann, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) head of programmes for South Kivu province, explains the situation in this part of eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) as the ...

The humanitarian emergency in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has deteriorated sharply with serious human rights violations and abuses, including reported summary executions of children ...

Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, is one of Africa's centres for music. With a population estimated at 17 million, the city is a melting pot of ethnicities and ...

With Kinshasa's notorious traffic jams, motorcycles are an easy alternative as they ...

A leading African priest says Africa’s history can be explained as “a history of extraversion and violence,”- the idea that ...

I fled the fighting in Bweremana between the Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of Congo [FARDC] and the M23 armed group ...

Rwandan-backed rebels have taken over a second city in the Democratic Republic of the Congo as they continue to seize territory under the watching and passive eyes of the international community.

M23 rebels backed by Rwanda took the city of Goma in a bloody battle. This weekend, the group entered the gold-trading center ...

The war erupting in the Democratic Republic of Congo has its roots in the Rwandan genocide and the bloodiest war of the 21st ...