DR Congo is a country in Central Africa but many people do not know that the country hosts many mineral resources important ...

How politics in Kinshasa combines with international power politics to undermine regional efforts for peace in DRC THE LAST ...

The economy of the Democratic Republic of the Congo - a nation endowed with vast natural resource wealth - continues to perform poorly. Systemic corruption since independence in 1960, combined ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

We, the undersigned 75 Congolese, regional, and international human rights organizations, write to appeal to you to urgently work to establish, in the context of a special session of the UN Human ...

The Democratic Republic of Congo accuses Rwanda of backing up the rebel group M23 in taking over Goma. CNN’s Larry Madowo sits down exclusively with Rwandan President Paul Kagame to ask him ...

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 ...

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 ...