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

The fall of Goma, the administrative center of the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s (DRC) North Kivu Province, to the Rwanda-backed M23 rebels in late January has significantly upped the ante in the ...

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

The Americans needed the job done. This week, as ethnic Tutsi M23 insurgents overran swathes of the Democratic Republic of Congo, or DRC, killing thousands, it’s become clear the cursed country is in ...

The Congo countryside has arguably the highest rate of rape in the world. A local gynaecologist, Dr Denis Mukwege, won the Nobel Peace Prize some years ago after becoming the world’s leading ...

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 ...

Officials from the party of Democratic Republic of Congo's former President Joseph Kabila appeared before a military ...

Both the judiciary and civil society have been steadily politicized ... Peering over the abyss of a looming third Congo War, Rwanda must decide how far it intends to reshape the geography of the ...

The United States spent decades responding to conflicts and disease in Africa. The continent is now expected to be the ...

beginning his career as aide-de-camp to now-President Paul Kagame during his insurgency in the Rwandan Civil War. He led Rwandan-backed rebel forces during the First Congo War that saw the ...