Nearly 3,000 people were killed over the last week as rebels captured a key city in one of the deadliest battles in the ...

M23 rebels have made rapid advances in the latest bout of conflict that has long-dogged the mineral-rich east.

During the two Congo wars, from 1996-2003 the country was at the centre of what some observers call "Africa's world war", with widespread civilian suffering. The war claimed an up to six million lives ...