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 ...

In January, rebel fighters claimed the eastern city of Goma in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC ... misfortune of taking place during the Cold War. The country was thrown into chaos ...

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 ...

The seizure by M23 rebels of vast tracts of land in the mineral-rich east of the Democratic Republic of Congo has triggered a humanitarian and diplomatic crisis, involving several neighbouring ...

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 ...

A Rwanda-backed militia seized the pivotal Congolese city of Goma this week, threatening a new humanitarian crisis after decades ... raising fears of a broader war. According to the United Nations ...

GENEVA, Feb 7 (Reuters) - The worst could be yet to come in east Congo's escalating crisis, U.N. human rights ... council can lead to prosecutions for war crimes in international courts.

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 ...

The first-ever summit of both Eastern and Southern African blocs points to the continent’s deep concern over the crisis and the standoff between Congo and neighboring Rwanda, which denies ...

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 ...