The DRC and Rwanda have signed a new deal to repatriate refugees, but violence and ...

The Democratic Republic of the Congo is holding elections. Civil war has displaced millions of the country’s citizens but garnered little attention internationally. Sake, Democratic Republic of ...

M23 recently seized the two principal cities in northeastern Congo, Goma, and Bukavu.At least six previous ceasefires in the long-running conflict have failed, turning hundreds of thousands of ...

Funding cuts to international aid organizations mean that medical assistance has dried up for vulnerable people affected by ...

KINSHASA, CONGO - Colonial rule, rapacious dictatorship and civil war have so ravaged Congo's economy and society that the streets of its cities swarm with homeless young people who numb their ...

Like most Catholics here in eastern Congo, she hoped that Pope Francis could bring a message of hope at a time when the M23 rebels are posing their greatest threat here since 2012.

Congo's mineral offer to US raises questions of ownership amid bloody civil war, major China presence Analysts warn DR Congo may not have access to minerals they are offering, China and Rebels ...

The Third Congo Civil War evolved out of Laurent-Désiré Kabila’s victory over Mobutu Sese Seko in 1997. Once Kabila became president of the DRC, his relations with previous allies such as ...

It was a war that the U.N.’s O’Brien, presumably with the full approval of Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold, had started in an attempt to bring Tshombe back under the authority of the Congo ...

Local officials say a Congolese soldier has shot and killed two of his colleagues while a third died of critical injuries in an altercation in the country’s east that left others wounded, local offici ...