The conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has entered a new and more destabilizing stage. A call for a pause in the fighting by leaders from the 8 member states of the East African ...

A conflict that has simmered in Democratic Republic of Congo’s eastern borderlands for years is set to erupt into a wider ...

LUBUMBASHI is a city in the mineral-rich Katanga region in the south of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Many people might not have heard of it, but Lubumbashi and its surrounding region have ...

The regionalization of the Democratic Republic of the Congo crisis raises prospects for another multinational Congo War and ...

The discovery of 70 bodies in an abandoned Church reveals the severity of the violence afflicting the east of the Democratic ...

Catholic Bishops in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have raised alarm over rising violations of the freedom of ...

I wrote last month that US President Donald Trump’s neoi-mperialism could significantly destabilise the African continent – ...

Catholic Bishops in Benin, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Mozambique are among Church leaders in Africa appealing ...

Since 1996, conflict in eastern DRC has led to approximately six million deaths. The First Congo War (1996–1997) began in the wake of the 1994 Rwandan Genocide, during which ethnic Hutu ...

The health system is now “dysfunctional” because of a lack of staff, said Mr Bachmann, harming efforts to contain the infectious diseases already plaguing the eastern DRC. Men wounded in ...

Defence Minister Angie Motshekga confirms that SANDF reinforcements have been deployed in Lubumbashi, but their mission is ...

About 700-800 reinforcements have been sent to Lubumbashi about 1 500 km south of Goma, but it is not clear how they will be deployed. President Cyril Ramaphosa has called for a diplomatic solution to ...