Six weeks after Rwanda-backed rebels captured the eastern Congolese cities of Goma and Bukavu, the region is facing a setback ...

For decades, the Congo Basin was largely invisible to climate science. Now, a new generation of Central African researchers ...

The war in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo, on the border with Rwanda, has caused at least six million deaths in ...

Will offers of resource wealth to the US and other powers help bring militia violence to heel in the Democratic Republic of ...

A conflict that has simmered in Democratic Republic of Congo’s eastern borderlands for years is set to erupt into a wider ...

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, today issued a new position on returns to the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), advising that Congolese nationals fleeing the conflict, as well as those ...

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

DRC hopes opening its vast mine fields to the Western world will pave way to long lasting peace while stemming support to ...

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 ...

Their role in technology and the global economy has made countries with rare earths a key focus in geopolitical discussions.

The latest disease outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo began on Jan. 21, with 419 cases recorded and 53 deaths. The outbreak began in the village of Boloko after three children ate a bat ...

Kinshasa, DRC: An unknown illness has killed more than 50 people in the north-west of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, according to doctors on the ground and the World Health Organisation.