Fighting by Islamic State and other terrorist groups over minerals and power has led to widespread killings and rape in the ...

Is a deadly past replaying for Congolese as M23 rebels march on Kinshasa amid presence of Rwandan and Ugandan troops?

African leaders have announced the withdrawal of thousands of troops from South Africa, Tanzania and Malawi, who were sent to ...

The regionalization of the Democratic Republic of the Congo crisis raises prospects for another multinational Congo War and ...

European countries are stepping up military aid and economic investment in Rwanda, said to be an ally in keeping order in the ...

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

Democratic Republic of the Congo, Saturday, Jan. 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Moses Sawasawa) The capture of Goma marks the biggest escalation of the conflict since the conclusion of the Second Congo War ...

When Mobutu fled Kinshasa, the Kabila-Kagame coalition won the First Congo War in 1997. Kabila was installed as president of Zaire and changed the country’s name back to The Democratic Republic ...

The mineral-rich east of the Democratic Republic of Congo has been dogged by conflict for more than ... acts that were met with international opprobrium and accusations of war crimes and human rights ...

The Israeli head of an NGO that helps severely malnourished children in the Democratic Republic of Congo says ... Now, there are fears of a third civil war following M23’s rapid takeover of ...

Since January, however, the rapid conquest and occupation of a huge area of the Democratic Republic of Congo by Rwanda and ...