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

The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) formerly Zaire, has in recent history been portrayed as a nation whose riches have been a curse rather than a blessing. It is indeed a country caught in unending ...

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 ...

Congo, on the other side, has termed the fall of Goma “a declaration of war” and vowed a “vigorous military response”. The crisis in Congo can be traced to the Rwandan genocide in 1994 in ...

This week, the Rwanda-backed M23 rebel group captured the eastern city of Goma, escalating a widespread humanitarian crisis ... This led to the First Congo War in 1996 where several African ...

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 ...

Geneva — The United Nations on Friday voiced alarm at rampant violence in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, as the M23 ... that since the start of the crisis, bombs had struct at least ...

Congolese President Felix Tshisekedi and Rwandan President Paul Kagame will attend a summit on Saturday on the crisis in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo ... an ongoing war of words ...

Congolese President Felix Tshisekedi and Rwandan President Paul Kagame will attend a joint summit this weekend to discuss the crisis in the eastern DR Congo, Kenya's presidency said Monday.