The human rights situation across the Democratic Republic of Congo remains dire, with internal conflicts and poor governance contributing to a severe food crisis and the internal displacement of 5 ...

Why have UN peacekeepers been in DR Congo for 65 years? Established by Security Council resolution 1279 (1999) of 30 November 1999. In accordance with Security Council resolution 1925 (2010), MONUC ...

The economy of the Democratic Republic of the Congo - a nation endowed with vast ... substantive economic reforms remains slow because of political instability, bureaucratic inefficiency ...

The UN’s top human rights body is holding an urgent session on spiralling violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where Rwanda-backed rebels recently captured a key city and some 3,000 people ...

Closest airports to Kindu, Democratic Republic Of The Congo are listed below. These are major airports close to the city of Kindu and other airports closest to Kindu Airport. This page provides all ...

The Democratic Republic of the Congo is no stranger to civil conflicts. But the latest advances made by M23, a rebel coalition, capturing the mineral-rich city of Goma, is a humiliating setback ...

The Rwanda-backed rebels taking over territory in DR Congo have vowed to fight all the way to the capital.

Feb. 4 (UPI) --Rebels occupying the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo city of Goma called a unilateral pause in the fighting, but the government dismissed the cease-fire as a stunt designed to ...

Rwanda-backed rebels who seized a major city in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have declared a unilateral ceasefire on humanitarian grounds. The M23 rebel group announced on Monday that ...

Thirty years after the violence, a related border conflict escalates, with control of mineral wealth at stake.