The latest fighting is part of a major escalation of a conflict over power, identity and resources dating back to the 1990s Rwandan genocide.

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

UNHCR spokesperson Eujin Byun told journalists in Geneva by video link that around 350,000 internally displaced people had no ...

More than 80 civilians were killed in a late night attack by the armed group CODECO on a cluster of villages in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo earlier this week, UN peacekeeping mission MONUSCO ...

Why did the M23 militia capture the city of Goma which lies in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo? Does Rwanda have ...

An offensive by M23 fighters is disrupting health services and displacing people in a region already beset by health ...

MILITIAS fighting in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo are recruiting child soldiers and raping hundreds of children, UN children’s fund Unicef said today.

They all belonged to a group of mercenaries run by Horatiu Potra. Potra, a 55-year-old Romanian citizen, came to prominence ...

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

Creating sustainable peace in Congo requires giving justice to the victims of war crimes and preventing the illicit trade in ...

A rampaging rebel group has claimed the capture of another mining town in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of ...

An attack by a militia from the Lendu ethnic group has killed 51 people in northeastern DR Congo, local and humanitarian ...