The United Nations’ children’s agency has accused armed men in eastern Congo of raping hundreds of women and children during ...

Leaders of the East African Community (EAC) and the South African Development Community (SADC) last week on Saturday approved a new set of measures expected to be crucial in pacifying the ...

African leaders on Saturday called for an "immediate ceasefire" in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and reaffirmed their full support for seeking a lasting solution to the ongoing ...

DAR ES SALAAM, TANZANIA | Xinhua | African leaders on Saturday called for an “immediate ceasefire” in the eastern Democratic ...

Leaders from Eastern and Southern African regional blocs gather in Tanzania on Saturday to seek a solution to the conflict in ...

GENEVA (AP) — The U.N.'s top human rights body was holding an urgent session on Friday on spiralling violence in eastern Congo, where Rwanda-backed rebels recently captured a key city and some 3,000 ...

The rebels on Monday said they did not intend to seize Bukavu or other areas, though they earlier expressed ambition to march ...

M23, an amorphous well-heeled and ambitious rebel group from the east of the DRC is the lead combatant within a coalition of ...

Tens of thousands of IDPs are leaving and routine is tentatively returning, as residents hope for peace despite crisis.

Since flag independence from Belgium on June 30, 1960 and since the gruesome murder of its founding president, Patrice ...

The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is the second-largest country in Africa and the 11th-largest in the world by land area.