The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) said on Tuesday that about one million people have been displaced since the beg ...

African countries appointed a trio of ex-leaders to oversee a push for peace in eastern DR Congo while an International ...

KINSHASA - DR Congo's prime minister said Monday that "more than 7,000" people have been killed in the east of the country since January, when the Rwanda-backed M23 group seized two major cities.A ...

KINSHASA - Three former African leaders have been appointed as facilitators of the latest regional mediation mechanism brokered by two regional blocs over the security crisis in the eastern Democratic ...

KINSHASA — Felix Tshisekedi, president of the Democratic Republic of Congo, will launch a unity government, his spokeswoman ...

Rich in an ore used in electronics, the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo has become a geopolitical minefield.

The UN Security Council unanimously adopted a resolution demanding that the M23 rebels in eastern Congo immediately cease ...

The United Nations Security Council on Friday urged the Rwandan military to withdraw its support for the M23 rebel group in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo and pull out its soldiers from ...

Rebels advanced on several fronts in DR Congo's volatile east Friday as the UN Security Council for the first time called on ...

M23 fighters on Friday advanced further on several fronts in DR Congo's volatile east as international pressure mounted on ...

The United States has sanctioned a Rwandan government minister for his alleged role in the conflict in neighboring Congo, where Rwanda-backed rebels are battling the Congolese army and have captured ...

During and following the genocide, nearly two million Hutu refugees crossed the Congolese border, mostly settling in refugee camps in the North Kivu and ... When Mobutu fled Kinshasa, the Kabila ...