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

The M23 rebel group that is backed by Rwanda has emerged as a more potent force after being crushed during their first ...

Rebels backed by Rwanda are seizing huge tracts of the Democratic Republic of Congo. The rebels, known as M23, say they are protecting ethnic Tutsis, the minority group massacred in a 1994 genocide.

The Rwandan-backed armed group M23 moved south as it closed in on a key military airport in DR Congo, with queues of young men volunteering to defend a provincial capital. Long lines of volunteers ...

A New York doctor was indicted by a grand jury in Louisiana for prescribing an abortion pill that was taken by a teenager there, television station WAFB reported on Friday. Margaret Carpenter was ...

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

“The fact that Pope Francis appoints women to positions of responsibility in the Vatican can have a symbolic impact,” confirmed Sister Nathalie Becquart, the first woman allowed to vote in the ...

Parts of the Democratic Republic of the Congo are under siege by a Rwanda-backed rebel group. The violence has killed UN peacekeepers, overwhelmed hospitals, displaced hundreds of thousands and ...

Rwanda’s evolving stature ensures muted global pressure as M23 advances in eastern Congo - In 2012, when M23 rebels appeared ...

A violent battle for the city of Goma in eastern Congo has again put the region’s women at risk.

A newcomer to Ottawa who devoted her life to helping people back home, but who struggled in her final months with mental ...

A proposal to ban formaldehyde in hair products has been delayed again. Studies link formaldehyde in chemical straighteners ...