A rebel outfit that easily dispatches the national army, doing so with lightning speed, must surely have external benefactors doing the propping and supplying the military wherewithal ...

and allowed Hutu militias to regroup in eastern Congo, prompting Rwanda and Uganda to invade the region. Angola, Namibia and Zimbabwe fought alongside Congolese troops in a five-year regional war ...

This long-running and particularly brutal war has now displaced more than 4.6 million people in the eastern provinces of South and North Kivu in what is a major humanitarian crisis. In starving ...

“These attacks continue to ravage the city, killing, injuring, traumatising, and displacing civilians and exacerbating the crisis ... a human face to the war in Congo. Daniel Buuma’s ...

Congo's foreign minister, Thérèse Kayikwamba Wagner, accused Rwanda of committing "a frontal aggression," which she said amounted to a declaration of war. As the humanitarian crisis deepens ...

Years of conflict in eastern Congo have created a dire mental health crisis. Aid groups say the number ... “All around us ...

Christian Bahati, a Congolese teacher, was among hundreds sheltering in Gisenyi, just across the border from Congo. “What we want is this war to come to an end,” he said. “Congolese people ...

During an emergency UN meeting on Sunday, DR Congo demanded sanctions against Rwanda, saying its forces had crossed into its territory in what amounted to a "declaration of war". Following the ...

Congo’s foreign minister, Thérèse Kayikwamba Wagner, told the Security Council that Rwanda was committing “a frontal aggression, a declaration of war which no longer hides itself behind ...

Christian Bahati, a Congolese teacher was among hundreds sheltering in Gisenyi, just across the border from Congo. “What we want is this war to come to an end,” he said. “Congolese people ...