Deep in the heart of a lush green forest, an excavator is hard at work, turning over the earth in search of gold. The ...

Thousands of families have been displaced by violence in eastern Congo, where Rwanda-backed rebels last month seized the key ...

For centuries, at least, the indigenous Bantu peoples of Central, East, and Southern Africa have traded tales of a lumbering creature living in the Congo River Basin. The alleged dinosaur-like ...

AFP reporters in North Kivu Jan 30, 2025 Jan 30, 2025 Updated Jan 31, 2025 The Rwanda-backed armed group M23 vowed on Thursday to march on the DR Congo capital, Kinshasa, as its fighters made ...

Congo accuses Rwanda of supporting M23 rebels ... summit of the regional blocs of southern and eastern Africa on Feb. 7-8, Kenya's president said on Monday. Muyaya said sanctions were necessary ...

The conflict in eastern DR Congo risks escalating into a broader regional war, Burundi's president said Saturday, as Africa's top health agency warned the fighting could spark new outbreaks of ...

The UN peacekeeping force in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo has warned of the risk of ethnically motivated attacks as conditions deteriorate in the region, haunted by the legacy of the 1994 ...

An armed group backed by Rwandan troops took control of the besieged Democratic Republic of Congo city of Goma's airport on Tuesday, a security source said, following three days of clashes that ...