The economy of the North Kivu capital, seized by the rebel movement and its Rwandan allies in late January, has ground to a ...

In parts of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), communities are gearing up for war or fleeing to safety amid the advance of M23 rebels, who captured the key eastern cities of Goma and ...

The pair signed a peace deal to bring a five-year civil war to an end in 2018 ... eastern border into the Democratic Republic of the Congo in recent months, where rebel groups backed by Rwanda ...

Despite the risks from deadly armed groups roaming the countryside, Judith Kahindo walks alone every day to her isolated cocoa plantation in the war-torn North Kivu region of the eastern Democratic ...

The church’s role in pursuing peace Decades of violence have decimated the Democratic Republic of the Congo, while much of the world remains oblivious to the suffering. The scars of war run deep ...

Democratic Republic of Congo. (Hugh Kinsella Cunningham / Getty Images) The war in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo, on the border with Rwanda, has caused at least six million deaths in ...

But, if al-Sharaa and HTS do not move quickly to improve the economy, which contracted 84 percent during the war; if they seek to impose Islamic law—not an unreasonable concern given HTS’s ...

The second Sudanese civil war lasted from 1983 to 2005 and ended with the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA). In 2011, nearly 99 percent of South Sudanese voted in favor of the independence ...

But, for decades, Sudan's gum arabic industry has "faced political instability, civil conflicts and economic challenges". Since the start of the current war, exports have been "severely affected".

At least 14 South African troops have been killed in the fighting in DR Congo Southern African leaders ... This is a full-on war and South Africa is hardly ready for any such war," he said.