Nearly 3,000 people were killed over the last week as rebels captured a key city in one of the deadliest battles in the ...

A South African defence expert, Helmoed Heitman, says the Southern African Development Community mission in DR Congo (SAMIDRC) is a complete failure and the bloc should negotiate its ...

Kinshasa, DRC | TASS | Uganda has sent 1,000 more troops to the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Reuters ...

Kinshasa, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Uganda People’s Defence Forces (UPDF) has reaffirmed its commitment to continuing ...

NAIROBI - Uganda has deployed more than 1,000 extra soldiers into east Congo in the last week near an area where the Kinshasa government is fighting M23 rebels, four diplomatic and U.N. sources said, ...

M23 rebels in the Democratic Republic of Congo were reported to have taken the key eastern city of Goma in fierce fighting with government forces that sent streams of refugees fleeing area communities ...

The Ugandan army said that its troops stationed in eastern DR Congo would adopt a "forward defensive posture" amid escalating ...

In the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), the proliferation of criminal youth gangs is at an all-time high. The government ...

Residents of the besieged city of Goma, in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo, say they are gripped ... theatre at the Kyeshero hospital as an operation was underway.

Suspected members of ISIS and Al Shabaab were amongst those detained by Interpol and Afripol in a joint operation in eight ...

Shabaab, several foreign terrorists arrested in joint counter-terrorism operation with Afripol, says international police ...

DRC gained independence in 1960 and since then the UN has played a crucial role in the country, notably through the deployment of three peacekeeping missions. The UN intervened for the first time in ...