When the Banyene family were sent back to their home in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, all that had survived the ...

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

More than a month after rebels captured Goma, the capital of DRC’s North Kivu province, humanitarian workers dispute the UN’s ...

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

It has been nearly a month since M23 rebels seized control of Goma, the main city of the eastern province of North Kivu in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Since then, the rebel leaders ...

The incident, whose cause was unknown, has added to the destruction wrought by years of civil war. By Abdalrahman Altayeb ... in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the lake was recently the site ...

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. The interval between ...

Kinshasa (AFP) – DR Congo's prime minister said Monday that "more than 7,000" people have been killed in the east of the country since January, when the Rwanda-backed M23 group seized two major ...

As Rwanda-backed rebels closed in on eastern Congo's largest city, retreating army soldiers barged into Suzanne Amisi Wilonja's home near the airport to loot, firing indiscriminately and shooting ...

Army and M23 rebels are accused of shooting children Rapes spike after fall of major eastern Congo city Some children die trying to flee to safety M23 say they want to restore order, security Feb ...