The Congolese government can ban former President Joseph Kabila's party, but peace in the country’s east will only come when Kinshasa addresses the threat to Rwanda from the genocidal militia, FDLR, ...

The April 23 joint announcement by the Congolese government and the AFC/M23 rebellion, under the aegis of Qatar, “constitutes an important - even decisive - step towards lasting peace” in the east of ...

Move coincides with DRC’s drive to sign minerals deal with US in exchange for security in war with Rwanda-backed rebels ... in DR Congo’s capital, Kinshasa.

Rwanda has agreed to allow troops deployed by the Southern Africa bloc to fight rebels in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo to evacuate from the rebel-held city of Goma through its territory to ...

Congolese authorities say at least 50 people were killed in weekend attacks in the country's conflict-hit east where government forces are fighting Rwanda-backed rebels ...

The rebels are supported by about 4,000 troops from neighboring Rwanda, according to U.N. experts, and at times have vowed to ...

M23 had long demanded direct negotiations with Kinshasa. Tshisekedi had refused, however, arguing that M23 was merely a proxy for Rwanda. Congo's government then agreed to direct talks in Angola ...

The men recently had their sentences commuted to life imprisonment for their role in an attempted coup last May in the central African nation. By Elian Peltier Reporting from Dakar, Senegal Three ...

The U.S. Embassy in Kinshasa confirmed that the men had been transferred to ... Rebels from the M23 group, which Congo's neighbor Rwanda supports, have captured the two largest cities in the east of ...

Rwanda began a weeklong commemoration Monday marking 31 years since the 1994 genocide against the ethnic Tutsi population. President Paul Kagame and first lady Jeannette Kagame, joined by the dean ...

Heavy rains in Kinshasa caused the Ndjili River to overflow, killing 33 people and displacing hundreds as floodwaters damaged homes and key infrastructure. Severe flooding in Kinshasa has left at ...

Kinshasa governor Daniel Bumba Lubaki acknowledged the damage ... This disaster comes amid growing instability in the country, with violence from Rwanda-backed M23 rebels intensifying in the east, ...