Democratic Republic of Congo doubled salaries for soldiers and police on Friday, the finance ministry said, in an apparent ...

Since gaining independence from Belgium in 1960, the Democratic Republic of Congo has seen recurrent armed conflict, ...

Maj' Gilbert Ndayambaje, 49, one of the members of the DR Congo-based FDLR militia who were handed over to Rwandan ...

GOMA, Congo (AP) — The M23 rebels in control of key areas of eastern Congo agreed Friday to a ceasefire with African ...

Fighters of the genocidal FDLR militia were given explicit orders to shoot on sight any Congolese soldier fleeing from the battlefield, it has emerged. FDLR, founded by extremist elements linked to ...

Thousands have been killed and 700,000 displaced this year, after Rwandan troops and M23 rebels invaded eastern Congo.

Congolese soldiers near the city of Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo, in January, shortly before the M23 militia captured the city. The latest conflict in eastern Congo has exposed endemic ...

African leaders have announced the withdrawal of thousands of troops from South Africa, Tanzania and Malawi, who were sent to ...

"Welcome to Soweto," reads the name of a small store, with the flags of South Africa and DR Congo either side of the phrase.

It is not only Congolese foot soldiers who are fleeing. The night before the rebels seized Goma, east Congo's largest city, the military command and provincial authorities fled by boat on Lake ...

With Kigali accused of providing military support to the M23 rebels in the east of the DRC, and negotiations between the DRC ...