After bearing witness to waves of fighting throughout the 1990s and early 2000s, the eastern Congo city of Bukavu may once ...

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has said that the East African Community (EAC) and Southern African Development ...

Nearly three thousand people have been killed in the city of Goma in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, according to ...

The M23, whose top brass are mostly Congolese Tutsi, began its insurgency more than three years ago after a decade of ...

In Kinshasa, capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), the phrase débrouillez-vous (fend for yourself) is considered ...

A USAID worker deployed to Congo described a chaotic scene as he was leaving the country in a rush following the abrupt Trump ...

Analysts say the deadly march by Rwanda-backed rebels across eastern Congo could widen into a regional conflict drawing in ...

A rebel group that claimed to have captured the city of Goma in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo last week has called ...

While the Interfaith Platform organized a prayer gathering February 3 in Kinshasa, leaders of the Catholic Church and the ...

The rebels on Monday said they did not intend to seize Bukavu or other areas, though they earlier expressed ambition to march on Congo’s capital, Kinshasa ... but said his country would do ...

Rwanda-backed rebels aiming to gain power have already captured Goma, a key city in eastern DRC. They have vowed to advance ...

Read more country profiles - Profiles by BBC Monitoring Capital ... over events in the Congo following serious nationalist riots in Leopoldville (now Kinshasa). 1960 - Congo becomes independent with ...