As Rwanda-backed rebels strolled through the streets of eastern Democratic Republic of Congo's second-largest city, President ...

Press Release - A staff member from Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has been critically injured after shots hit the MSF base in Masisi town, in Democratic Republic of Congo's North Kivu province, on ...

M23 rebels backed by Rwanda took the city of Goma in a bloody battle. This weekend, the group entered the gold-trading center of Bukavu in eastern Congo after government soldiers fled.

The war erupting in the Democratic Republic of Congo has its roots in the Rwandan genocide and the bloodiest war of the 21st ...

The Congo River Alliance, a group of rebel outfits including the Rwandan-backed M23, said its fighters "decided to assist the ...

A Rwandan government minister and M23 rebel group spokesperson were sanctioned Thursday by US for alleged involvement in ...

US Agency for International Development employees this week recounted the panic they experienced in the days after they were ...

Nairobi is considering evacuating nationals who can reach the consulate in Goma or the temporary offices in Congo Brazzaville ...

Analysis - The current conditions in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) resemble the situation during the Second Congo ...

The capture of Bukavu, the capital of South Kivu province, would represent an unprecedented expansion of territory under the ...

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 First Congo War, also known as Africa’s First World War, took place from October 1996 till May 1997. It involved multiple ...