The latest conflict in eastern Congo has exposed endemic weaknesses in the country’s military, long known for corruption, extortion and abuse.

For decades, the Congo Basin was largely invisible to climate science. Now, a new generation of Central African researchers ...

The map above, based on the most ... largest copper and cobalt mines in the world, owned by Chinese company CMOC, in southeastern Democratic Republic of Congo, on June... Trucks haul away ore ...

The war in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo, on the border with Rwanda, has caused at least six million deaths in ...

The position of Uganda, officially in Congo ... once the world’s largest, has been deployed for more than 20 years, tasked with helping contain flare-ups in fighting across the country.

Rwandan-backed rebels have occupied a second major city in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC ... of Bukavu can no longer hold." Image: Map of DRC showing Goma, Bukavu and Kinshasa ...

Direct peace talks between the Democratic Republic of Congo and M23 rebels will begin in the Angolan capital on March 18, ...

Nearly 80,000 fleeing the conflict ravaging the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo since January have found refuge in neighbouring countries ... calls “one of the world’s worst humanitarian ...

Fighting by Islamic State and other terrorist groups over minerals and power has led to widespread killings and rape in the DRC. Disease, child slavery and Christian persecution stalk the population.

The United States is holding “exploratory talks” with Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC ... of Africa’s most richly endowed countries, the DRC is world’s largest producer of cobalt ...

The Southern African country ... Eastern Congo is home to vast reserves of strategic minerals such as coltan, cobalt, copper and lithium, resources that are central to the world's race to develop ...