Thousands of families have been displaced by violence in eastern Congo, where Rwanda-backed rebels last month seized the key city of Goma in a blitz offensive in the mineral-rich region ...

Rwanda's President Paul Kagame and his Congolese counterpart Felix Tshisekedi were set to join talks in Tanzania on Saturday ...

The Democratic Republic of Congo has been mired in conflict for years. As fresh fighting surges in the east, the roots of ...

The Rwanda-backed M23 has seized vast swathes of eastern DRC and is pressing southwards into South Kivu province, which shares a border with Burundi.

The Rwanda-backed M23 armed group was threatening another key town in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) on Friday ...

High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk on Friday warned that the escalating violence in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) could lead to a further deterioration of the ...

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

The M23, whose top brass are mostly Congolese Tutsi, began its insurgency more than three years ago after a decade of ...

The UN has issued its starkest warning yet as Rwanda-backed M23 rebels advance beyond captured Goma into South Kivu province, ...

Congo calls an emergency UN Human Rights Council meeting, demanding an urgent investigation of violations it says have been committed by Rwandan-backed M23 rebels.

Conflict in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo has "multiplied" the risk of the spread of diseases, including ...

A joint summit between the East African Community and the Southern African Development Community will take place today and Saturday in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. The Presidents of Rwanda and the ...