Our tour of Goma airport earlier this week took much longer than I had anticipated. There was simply too much to see, too much dangerous stuff on the tarmac and other sections to navigate, and too ...

Is it too late, asked Le Pays (Ouagadougou): have we "reached the point of no return" for another catastrophic conflict in Africa? Last week, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Rwanda ...

DR Congo map highlighted in DR Congo flag colors and pin of country capital Kinshasa, map with neighboring African countries. Congo Democratic Republic Flag Looping Background Congo Democratic ...

As the crisis in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo reaches a critical juncture, pressure is mounting on the African ...

A summit of African leaders meeting to address the crisis in the DR Congo on Saturday called for an “immediate and unconditional ceasefire” within five days. The Rwanda-backed M23 armed group ...

Leaders from east and southern Africa have called for an immediate and unconditional ... The rebels - fighting government forces - have seized vast swathes of land in the eastern DR Congo, including ...

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

The ongoing conflict dates back to the 1990s, but has rapidly escalated in recent weeks. The DR Congo is so vast - two-thirds the size of Western Europe - that it is a member of both the East and ...

So how did DR Congo - the largest country in sub-Saharan Africa - get here? The origins of this complex conflict can be understood through the story of one man - M23 leader Sultani Makenga, who is the ...

The seizure by M23 rebels of vast tracts of land in the mineral-rich east of the Democratic Republic of Congo has triggered a ...

JOHANNESBURG, Feb 10 (Reuters) - South Africa has sent additional troops ... for investigating sex abuse by aid workers in DR Congo. Donald Trump's trade advisers were finalising plans for the ...

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa said on Monday that a process should be set in place for the withdrawal of “uninvited foreign armed forces” from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).