Analysts weigh in on Rwanda’s role in the conflict in DRC, whether minerals are a factor and if diplomacy can succeed.

United Nations agencies called for an end to the violence in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) as fighting ...

Intense clashes broke out as the armed group seized a mining town in South Kivu province and resumed its advance towards the ...

The past three years have been turbulent for the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, a region that has experienced ...

A senior U.N. official in the Democratic Republic of Congo said Wednesday that nearly 3,000 people have been killed in a ...

Heads of state attending the African Union summit are expected to hold a high-level meeting on the escalation of violence in ...

In the third part of our ‘Stories from Goma’ series, The New Times looks at a seeming volatile relationship between the M23 Movement and SADC troops in areas under M23 control. The SADC mission, ...

The M23 advance on North Kivu capital Goma, first reported last week, saw the United Nations (UN) mission in Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) activate a quick reaction force (QRF), two battalions, a ...

In 2013, South African forces backed by UN peacekeepers repelled rebels linked to the M23 movement successfully ... many believe UN missions like MONUSCO in the DRC are likely to fail due to ...

UN human rights chief Volker Türk on Friday (07 Feb) expressed profound concerns at the ongoing violent escalation in eastern ...

Clashes last week in the eastern Congolese city of Goma, which saw the M23 armed group and Rwandan ... mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUSCO), told a video news conference.