Efforts to achieve a ceasefire collapsed last week after the rebels pulled out from talks being facilitated by Angola.

The leader of the rebels who captured two key cities in eastern Congo tells The Associated Press that international sanctions ...

The leader of the rebels who captured two key cities in eastern Congo says international sanctions and the planned minerals deal that the country has offered the U.S. will not stop the fighting ...

In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, battles are taking place for territory and rare earth minerals such as cobalt.

In a surprise announcement from Qatar Tuesday the Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda jointly called for a cease-fire in ...

The M23 militia is ruling over a vast stretch of territory in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of Congo, ...

The country’s president offered a deal that would give the U.S. access to key minerals in return for a security pact that ...

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Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. The crisis in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is getting worse.

After talks in Qatar, the two countries’ presidents said they were committed to an unconditional truce between Congo’s army ...

Angolan President Joao Lourenco, the African Union’s peace mediator for the conflict in Congo, is pushing for direct talks ...

Angola has ended its mediation in the war in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo. The Angolan Presidency announced this in a communiqué today, March 24: "Angola considers it necessary to ...