Sixteen-year-old Darkuna watched, terrified, as six gun-wielding men ransacked her home. She would become one of many ...

The DRC is planning to construct a 3,100 kilometre transportation corridor, to link mines in the interior to the coast. A ...

Rwanda-backed armed group M23 on Sunday accused the Democratic Republic of Congo's government, which it has been fighting in the country's east, of attempting to "torpedo" direct talks scheduled in ...

The southern African regional bloc has decided to end its military deployment to the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo ...

More than a month after rebels captured Goma, the capital of DRC’s North Kivu province, humanitarian workers dispute the UN’s ...

Frank, a World Vision staff member, lost two family members—Laurianne and Jean-Pierre—when the M23 siege on Goma turned their ...

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

A Southern African Development Community (SADC) extraordinary summit on Thursday terminated the mandate of the SADC Mission ...

The Banyene family’s return to Sake, a town in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), was far from a homecoming.

Angola has acted as a mediator in the conflict in eastern Congo, which escalated in late January when the Rwanda-backed ...

African leaders on Thursday announced the withdrawal of thousands of troops from South Africa, Tanzania and Malawi who were ...

Since January, however, the rapid conquest and occupation of a huge area of the Democratic Republic of Congo by Rwanda ... an area of eastern Congo that is home to more than five million people. In ...