Critical minerals factor into the fight.

Nearly 3,000 people were killed over the last week as rebels captured a key city in one of the deadliest battles in the ...

A Swiss aid group said on Thursday that three of its local employees were killed during an attack while on a humanitarian ...

Nearly 300 foreign mercenaries hired by the Democratic Republic of Congo government to counter a swift offensive by ...

The latest violence to wrack the mineral-rich region has killed at least ... a Congolese militia that has been fighting ...

There is a good chance that inside your mobile phone is a miniscule amount of a metal that started its journey buried in the ...

M23 rebels escort government soldiers and police who surrendered to an undisclosed location in Goma, Democratic republic of ...

It is also a worrying sign that M23’s patron, Rwanda, may be willing to use its strength to redraw the map of the region ... such as plundering Congo’s mineral wealth and pulling the area ...

as well as Congo Protection, led by a former member of the French Foreign Legion, for training, said Henry-Pacifique Mayala from Kivu Security Tracker (KST), which maps unrest in eastern Congo.

The UN experts map a circuitous ... of these minerals went through M23-controlled area towards Rwanda. So even then, Rwanda was profiting from the instability in eastern DR Congo and we saw ...

The map below, using USAID data released by U.S. Office of Foreign Assistance, shows the countries where USAID spent most ...