A Rwanda-backed militia seized the pivotal Congolese city of Goma this week, threatening a new humanitarian crisis after ...

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 ...

The U.N. voices concern over alleged atrocities as Rwandan-backed rebels reportedly advance after seizing the city of Goma in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

South Africa often uses its diplomatic heft to position itself as defender of the "global south" on the world stage, but the ...

M23 rebels claim they now control the Congolese city of Goma—an act Congo's government described as a 'declaration of war.' ...

Bodies are lying on the streets. Medical staff in overwhelmed hospitals are treating hundreds of wounded civilians against ...

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 ...

Amnesty International called on the International Criminal Court to investigate the attacks as war crimes ... place to go to ...

South Africa has troops deployed in the war-torn Democratic Republic of Congo as part of a U.N. peacekeeping ... in an African Union meeting on the crisis. “As South Africa, we participated ...

“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, told the Security Council that Rwanda was committing “a frontal aggression, a declaration of war which no longer hides itself behind ...