Leaders at an unprecedented joint summit of Eastern and Southern African blocs aimed at defusing the crisis in Eastern Congo ...

Rwanda has economic as well as security interests. Kigali denies UN evidence that it smuggles vast amounts of gold and other ...

Around 3,000 people have been killed in clashes between M23 rebels and government forces, and thousands more have been ...

A single image captures the grim task facing those who needed to find space for the dead after a spasm of violence in Central ...

The Congo River runs through the Republic of Congo, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Central African Republic, ...

Nearly 3,000 people were killed over the last week as rebels captured a key city in one of the deadliest battles in the ...

Rwandan-backed M23 rebels have seized control of a mining town in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo's South Kivu province, ...

Congo's leader Felix Tshisekedi and his Rwandan counterpart Paul Kagame, who have exchanged fiery words blaming each other's ...

The Democratic Republic of Congo has been mired in conflict for years. As fresh fighting surges in the east, the roots of ...

Her story mirrors that of thousands of other families displaced by violence in eastern Congo, where Rwanda-backed rebels last month seized the key city of Goma, spreading their footprint in a blitz ...

A high-stakes joint summit of the East African Community (EAC) and the Southern African Development Community (SADC) officially kicked off in Tanzania on Saturday, with regional leaders demanding an ...

Flags are flying half-mast in South Africa as bodies of deceased soldiers are being repatriated, but questions about the ...