Many experts believe they are descended from the original Middle Stone Age expansion of anatomically modern humans.

At least 50 people have been killed in the eastern Ituri province of the Democratic Republic of Congo, several local officials said. They set fire to houses, looted and reportedly raped women and ...

GOMA, Congo — Militia fighters killed at least 55 civilians in an attack on a cluster of villages and a camp for displaced people in northeastern Congo, local authorities said Tuesday.

The militia had launched attacks late Monday in three localities in Dguju in the northeastern province of Ituri. Local civil society members said 52 people were killed, eight injured, and 30 ...

Armed men from the CODECO militia attacked the Djaiba group of villages, which is also home to a camp for the displaced, in the province of Ituri Monday night, Antoinnette Nzale, the leader of the ...

Uganda claimed Ituri, while Rwanda claimed the North and South Kivu provinces. Burundian president Évariste Ndayishimiye has warned of an escalating regional war, and even suggested that Rwanda ...