M23 fighters, backed by Rwanda, continue to advance into eastern DR Congo. While the rebels are outnumbered by the Congolese army, DW examines whether the military has the capacity to respond ...

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

The AFC/M23 rebellion in eastern DR Congo has "categorically reject the unfounded allegations" presented in Human Rights Watch's (HRW) report, on Wednesday, March 12, claiming that the rebel alliance ...

The life and work of Frank Wisner, one of the CIA’s founding officers, offers us a portrait of American intelligence’s ...

The war in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo, on the border with Rwanda, has caused at least six million deaths in ...

The situation in the Congo may not be directly associated with capitalism but without capitalism, the situation would have ...

The current fighting is the result of a decision by Congolese President Felix Tshisekedi to incite ethnic violence and to support groups that perpetrated the Rwanda genocide.

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

Congo filed criminal complaints against Apple subsidiaries in France and Belgium, its lawyers said ... a different office "with jurisdiction over war crimes". The prosecutor's office and Apple ...

Belgium’s King Leopold also sent emissaries to secure recognition of the “International Congo Society”, an association ... and following World War I (1914-1918) when the Ottoman and German ...

despite the country's involvement in the war in neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo. "I don't believe that we should punish the people of Rwanda and punish the people of other countries when ...