The U.N. health agency says that fighting last week between Congolese government forces and Rwanda-backed rebels in the major ...

Photographer and visual artist Sammy Baloji discusses his International Film Festival Rotterdam Tiger Competition entry, the importance of sound, and the Pier Paolo Pasolini adaptation he is hoping to ...

More than 700 people have been killed and 2,800 injured in just five days since fighting escalated in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) between January 26-30, UN Secretary-General ...

Democratic Republic of Congo President Felix Tshisekedi has vowed “a vigorous and coordinated response” against a rebel alliance that has besieged swathes of the nation’s mineral-rich east ...

What has been a slow-burn crisis in eastern DRC has again exploded into the open. Kagame appears to have calculated that a ...

In Stanford's first inaugural Congo Week, students and experts celebrate Congolese heritage and discuss important issues regarding the DRC.

Despite the failure of all previous peace efforts in eastern DR Congo, the international community, led by the mediator ...

Rebels backed by Rwanda captured more towns in eastern Congo as fighters moved beyond the key city of Goma in an apparent ...

Residents reported gunfire overnight in Goma, a city of 2 million people which the rebels claimed to have captured on Monday.

Nearly 300 foreign mercenaries surrender to UN peacekeepers M23 rebels cornered mercenaries and remnants of Congo army after capturing eastern city of Goma Mercenaries were hired to support ...

GENEVA (Reuters) - The worsening conflict in eastern Congo has led to a surge in human rights violations including summary executions, the bombing of displacement camps, reports of gang rape and ...

(Nairobi) – Civilians in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo are at increasing risk as the abusive M23 armed group, supported by the Rwanda Defence Force (RDF), approaches Goma, the capital of ...