M23’s advances highlight Rwanda’s role in the Democratic Republic of Congo, and the risk of an escalating regionalised ...

Rape and other violence against children in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo has soared to unprecedented levels, the ...

Analysts weigh in on Rwanda’s role in the conflict in DRC, whether minerals are a factor and if diplomacy can succeed.

A rampaging rebel group has claimed the capture of another mining town in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of ...

The Rwandan-backed M23 rebels have attacked Congolese government forces in the South Kivu province, breaking a two-day lull ...

Rwanda has economic as well as security interests. Kigali denies UN evidence that it smuggles vast amounts of gold and other ...

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

There is a good chance that inside your mobile phone is a miniscule amount of a metal that started its journey buried in the ...

Experts and analysts have expressed concern that Rwanda aims to take control of parts of Congo to ensure access to minerals.

In a region of complex and often-shifting alliances, U.N. experts say Uganda has also backed the ethnic Tutsi-led M23, which is the latest in a string of Rwanda-backed rebellions to take up arms in ...

Thirty years after the violence, a related border conflict escalates, with control of mineral wealth at stake.

But is the conflict in eastern Congo a dangerous drama waiting for a spark that will rekindle the ethnic divisions of the past that eventually led to the gruesome death of millions of people? The ...