The Democratic Republic of Congo has been mired in conflict for years. As fresh fighting surges in the east, the roots of ...

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

The conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is once again in the ... In the early 1990s, the DRC saw a spillover of civil war and subsequent genocide in neighbouring Rwanda.

and allowed Hutu militias to regroup in eastern Congo, prompting Rwanda and Uganda to invade the region. Angola, Namibia and Zimbabwe fought alongside Congolese troops in a five-year regional war ...