The United Nations Security Council will vote on Friday to call on Rwanda's military to stop supporting the M23 rebel group ...

The war erupting in the Democratic Republic of Congo has its roots in the Rwandan genocide and the bloodiest war of the 21st ...

Analysts say the deadly march by Rwanda-backed rebels across eastern Congo could widen into a regional conflict drawing in ...

Top United Nations officials in Africa have warned an emergency meeting of the U.N. Security Council that the offensive of ...

The group waged the First Congo War from October 1996 to May 1997 that ended with the overthrow of the DRC’s long-time ruler, ...

UN chief Antonio Guterres on Saturday demanded that the Democratic Republic of Congo’s (DRC) “territorial integrity” be respected and a regional war avoided, at an African summit the day ...

Three days after Donald Trump’s inauguration in January, Rwanda-backed M23 rebels stormed the city of Goma in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo. Now, as the fog of war lifts from the ...

Fred Bauma, a Congolese activist and Director of the Ebuteli Institute, warned that the conflict in eastern DR Congo is evolving into a regional war if it hasn't already reached that stage.

For one thing, violence is seen as expected and typical in Africa, and so the war in eastern Congo isn’t deemed worthy of coverage because it’s “more of the same.” For another thing ...

Eastern Congo in recent decades has been the setting for a conflict that has caused the highest death toll since World War II. Its last major regional upheaval broke out in 1998 as Congo's then ...