United Nations Secretary-General, António Guterres has appealed for meditation to end the crisis in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, DRC. He made the appeal at a news conference in New ...

The Rwandan-backed M23 group has said they want to liberate DR Congo [AFP] ...

As tensions remain fraught, regional leaders have convened in an unprecedented summit, seeking to initiate direct talks between conflicting parties. Congo acknowledges summit outcomes and continues to ...

Continued clashes in South Kivu in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) are triggering mass displacement and causing civilian ... were reported in North Kivu between 1 and 27 January. In ...

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 ...

The crisis in eastern Congo has disrupted economic activity in East Africa, and especially air travel, with the region’s airlines staring at losses after suspending flights to the city of Goma, which ...

Leaders from Eastern and Southern African blocs convened at a historic summit with aims to de-escalate the crisis in Eastern Congo. They pressed for direct talks involving all parties, including ...

President Felix Tshisekedi is hell-bent on a military solution to the eastern Congo crisis. He is now asking Angola’s military, one of the best equipped in Africa, to join the other Southern African ...

All media and diplomats' talk is about Rwanda-backed M23 causing humanitarian crisis or Rwanda invading DR Congo. No mention of why M23 are fighting. Even assuming that Rwanda is in DR Congo ...

A summit of African leaders meeting to address the crisis in the DR Congo on Saturday called for an “immediate and unconditional ceasefire” within five days. The Rwanda-backed M23 armed group ...