Since Goma fell, I’ve lived in fear. I don’t dare leave my house.” These are the words of Justin Shamutwa Masumbuko, general ...

Britain said on Tuesday it had summoned the Rwandan High Commissioner following advances by the Rwandan Defence Force and the Rwanda-backed M23 rebels in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. "These ...

Congolese authorities announced that over 170 prisoners on death row over armed robberies would be executed. A recent video on TikTok purportedly shows the alleged convicts before, during and after ...

Follow IOL's coverage as South Africa prepares for President Cyril Ramaphosa's SONA 2025 and traffic disruptions in Cape Town ...

An embassy is an inviolate premise, a foreign territory indeed. This is bad for diplomacy. It is important for the DRC not to ...

In Central Africa lies a country, almost a subcontinent, roughly the size of all of Western Europe—one of the richest countries in terms of resources, yet one of the poorest in terms of resource gain ...

Rwanda-backed rebels who seized a city in eastern Congo declare a unilateral ceasefire, citing humanitarian grounds.

Democratic Republic of the Congo DRC flag JOHANNESBURG - The World Food Programme (WFP) said one out of four people across the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is currently facing actual hunger.

The DRC’s Gécamines is forging new partnerships with the US, Japan and France amid soaring demand for critical minerals, but transparency and financial concerns persist. After years of being shunned ...

When Goma, the capital of North Kivu Province in the eastern region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), fell over the weekend to rebel group M23, part of the Congo River Alliance ...

Lab holding Ebola in DRC's Goma at risk amid fighting ... Congo might seek support from countries like South Africa — whose troops are among foreign militaries in Congo — while Rwanda might ...

M23 rebels on Monday cliamed seizing Goma, the biggest and key city in North Kivu, sparking mass displacement of residents. Mudavadi said attacks on Kenyan embassy violate international law and ...