The foreign ministry says all United Nations personnel have been restricted to movement within UN compounds for safety ...

In the eastern reaches of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), where the shimmering waters of Lake Kivu meet rolling green ...

The Rwanda-backed rebels who captured a major city in eastern Congo sought to reassure its residents on Thursday, holding a ...

Hundreds of wounded people have poured into overcrowded hospitals in Goma, a major city in eastern Congo, as fighting rages ...

The U.N.’s top human rights body was holding an urgent session on Friday on spiralling violence in eastern Congo, where Rwanda-backed rebels recently captured a key city and some ...

Hundreds of women were raped and burned to death after militants raided a prison in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

The United Nations has 14,000 of its blue helmet soldiers in the Kivu region, and this past December, 14 blue helmets were killed. The countries that make up the Southern African Development Community ...

Eastern Congo, a peripheral part of the inter-lacustrine ... and his family naming it with oxymoronic bravura as “the Free Congo State”. Several decades later after the monstrous tyrant ...

The Rwanda-backed rebels who seized eastern Congo's key city of Goma announced a unilateral ceasefire in the region Monday ...

In Central Africa lies a country, almost a subcontinent, roughly the size of all of Western Europe—one of the richest countries in terms of resources, yet one of the poorest in terms of resource gain ...

As M23 continues its destructive march, the upcoming EAC-SADC summit must consider lessons from failed peace efforts.

Rebel leader Corneille Nangaa has openly expressed the M23's ambition to advance towards Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo. Just days after seizing control of Goma, the M23 ...