The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is trapped in an unrelenting cycle of conflict, displacement, and humanitarian suffering ...

End Congo clash for Africa to move ahead The recent killings of more than 700 people in the Goma region of Eastern Congo are sad memories of the history of wars and instability that continue to rock ...

The worst could be yet to come in east Congo's escalating crisis, U.N. human rights chief Volker Turk said at an emergency meeting of the U.N. Human Rights Council on Friday (February 7), warning that ...

NAIROBI (Reuters) -As Rwanda-backed M23 rebels in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo push south towards ... deal that ended Burundi's 1993-2005 civil war, which killed 300,000 people, its ...

Bruno Lemarquis, the top U.N. aid official in Congo, called for the urgent reopening of Goma’s airport to allow humanitarian flights to resume. For many in Goma, the cease-fire has offered a brief ...

No fewer than 773 people were killed in Goma last week, according to Congolese authorities, as Rwanda-backed rebels captured the largest city in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo in a major esc ...

Under the peace deal that ended Burundi’s 1993-2005 civil war, which killed 300,000 people, its military put in place an ethnic quota system that shared positions between Hutus and Tutsis equally.

Since flag independence from Belgium on June 30, 1960 and since the gruesome murder of its founding president, Patrice ...

Louis Armstrong, Dizzy Gillespie and Nina Simone are jazz legends, but in the 1960s ... news came back from Congo was completely hushed up and vice versa. The Belgian Congo was kept as a bubble and ...

AMSTERDAM, Feb 5 (Reuters) - International Criminal Court prosecutors said on Wednesday they were closely monitoring events in Democratic Republic of Congo, where Rwandan-backed rebels are trying ...

The Rwanda-backed armed group M23 has vowed to march on the capital Kinshasa after capturing eastern DR Congo's biggest city ... "If it continues like this, war risks becoming widespread in ...

Rwanda-backed M23 rebels took the Congolese trading hub of Goma last week, leaving thousands dead and wounded and raising concerns of a regional war. Congo and United Nations experts say M23 has ...