Since 1996, conflict in eastern DRC has led to approximately six million deaths. The First Congo War (1996–1997) began in the wake of the 1994 Rwandan Genocide, during which ethnic Hutu ...

Embassies have begun using armoured vehicles for trips to the airport and sending some staff across the Congo River to Brazzaville, capital of Republic of Congo. Three Kinshasa-based government ...

It is high time the South African National Defence Forces' (SANDF) holed up in a UN base camp in DR Congo's North Kivu Province returned home since they have no business in AFC/M23 rebel-held ...

Burundi denies withdrawing troops from Congo amid M23 rebel conflict U.N ... Some have drowned in the Ruzizi River while trying to cross, he said. "(Refugees) are exhausted and traumatised.

People head out onto Kivu Lake with their belongings from the Bulengo camp for displaced people near Goma, Democratic Rebuplic of Congo, on Tuesday after being ordered to vacate by the M23 armed ...

The Congo River Alliance, a group of rebel outfits including ... "The city of Bukavu can no longer hold." Image: Map of DRC showing Goma, Bukavu and Kinshasa Bukavu is the provincial capital ...

The Congo River Alliance, a coalition of rebel groups that includes the M23, said in a statement that its fighters “decided to assist the population of Bukavu” in addressing its security ...

The Congo River Alliance (AFC), which includes the M23 group, announced a unilateral cease-fire Feb. 4 in response to what it said was the humanitarian crisis" caused by the Kinshasa regime [the ...

95% of Egypt’s population still lives along its banks, depending on the river for infrastructure and agriculture. The Congo River is the world’s ninth-longest river and the deepest ...