The mineral-rich east of the Democratic Republic of Congo has been dogged by conflict for more than 30 years ... the M23 rapidly gained territory and seized Goma – acts that were met with ...

The order triggered what was to become the first Congo War. Rwanda, Uganda, and Angola began backing the Alliance of Democratic Forces for the liberation of Congo under Laurent-Desire Kabila ...

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

Tension mounts in South Sudan as power deal between President Salva Kiir and Vice President Riek Machar unravels.

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 ...

Congo's former President Joseph Kabila has initiated talks with opposition politicians about the country's political future ...

Yet the war unfolding in the Democratic Republic of Congo remains an afterthought. A bloody conflict is met with condemnations but no meaningful action. This stark contrast is not just neglect ...

Risk of more armed actors. Eastern Congo in recent decades has been the setting for a conflict that has caused the highest death toll since World War II. Its last major regional upheaval broke out ...

All parties in the conflict seem to be trapped in a spiral of violence. The disputes are over power, money and access to the country’s valuable natural resources. Belgian film director Thierry ...

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 cities ...

Regional civil society organisations have petitioned the heads of states from Southern and East African to put in place mechanisms to protect civilians in the war-torn eastern Congo. In a ...

KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — The deadly march by Rwanda-backed rebels across eastern Congo could widen into a regional conflict drawing in even more countries, analysts warn, and two neighboring ...