Rwandan-backed M23 rebels who in late January captured Goma, the biggest city in eastern Congo, have since been advancing around one of Africa's great lakes, Lake Kivu, towards the second-biggest city ...

The U.N. refugee agency voiced concern at the "rapidly deteriorating" situation in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo ...

DRC has launched a plan for a green corridor at the world's largest protected area - but local people say they haven't been ...

An offensive by M23 fighters is disrupting health services and displacing people in a region already beset by health ...

There is a “mismatch” between the importance of peatlands and their current level of protection, a new study warns.

Creating sustainable peace in Congo requires giving justice to the victims of war crimes and preventing the illicit trade in ...

The burden that Patrice Lumumba, prime minister of the Republic of the Congo, assumed was an awesome one. On his young, slim ...

The U.N. says more than 110,000 displaced people have in recent days left settlement camps in eastern Congo's cities ...

DR Congo accuses Rwanda of seeking to profit from the region's rare minerals, which are used in technology such as smartphones across the world a claim Rwanda also denies. Since M23 and Rwandan ...

The World Food Programme said it had evacuated staff and suspended activities. There was a shortage of medical supplies, ambulances and body bags, Congo's health ministry said, with security ...

(Tony Karumba/AFP/Getty Images) M23 is the most potent of more than 100 armed groups vying for control in Congo's mineral-rich east, which holds vast deposits critical to much of the world's ...

Rwanda-backed rebels were quickly expanding their presence in eastern Congo after capturing Goma, the region’s major city, the UN said on Friday, also expressing concerns over executions it ...