The resurgence of the M23 (March 23 movement) rebel group has once again drawn global attention to the eastern Democratic ...

Democratic Republic of Congo, which is rich in cobalt, lithium and uranium among other minerals, has been fighting ...

After clashes in Bukavu between armed groups including the M23 Rebels, the remains of some of the victims were buried. Fears of regional conflict grow as M23 captures cities in eastern DRC ...

Perhaps more importantly, it contains some of the world’s largest deposits of key minerals, such as cobalt, which is ...

KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — An unknown illness first discovered in three children who ate a bat has rapidly killed more than 50 people in northwestern Congo over the past five weeks, health experts say.

More than 50 people in the north-western of the Democratic Republic of Congo have died of an unidentified illness. The outbreak began on January 21, with 419 cases having been recorded since.

Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of Congo Judith Suminwa talks to journalists during a press conference organized by the Geneva Association of United Nations Correspondents (ACANU), at a ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Congo’s President Felix Tshisekedi speaks during a press conference at the Elysee Palace in Paris, April ...

Locals at a village in the embattled North Kivu province of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) are appealing for prayers after approximately 70 bodies were found inside a church building in ...

The United Nations Security Council unanimously adopted a resolution on Friday calling for an immediate and unconditional ceasefire in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Rwanda-backed ...

Since 1996, conflict in eastern DRC has led to approximately six million deaths. The First Congo War (1996–1997) began in the wake of the 1994 Rwandan Genocide, during which ethnic Hutu ...

Rwanda denies backing the rebels. Map locates Goma in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Gisenyi in Rwanda.