Top United Nations officials in Africa have warned an emergency meeting of the U.N. Security Council that the offensive of ...

Congo has been plagued by war for nearly three decades. Millions of people have been displaced, and rape has consistently ...

Rwanda-backed rebels have captured two major cities in Congo’s mineral-rich east after a major escalation in their yearslong ...

Why rebels have seized two cities in troubled Congo - Here’s how we got here, and whether this could escalate further ...

M23’s advances highlight Rwanda’s role in the Democratic Republic of Congo, and the risk of an escalating regionalised ...

The Rwandan-backed rebels' entry into Bukavu follows their capture of Goma, defying international calls for a ceasefire.

Congo stands on the brink of being at the centre of a devastating new regional war. Europe should act in its own ...

Kabila became president. Kagame and Museveni fought along with Congolese Tutsis to assert their citizenship once the war ...

The fighting has prompted hundreds of thousands of people to flee and fueled government accusations that Rwanda was declaring war by supporting ... the first and second Congo Wars until he was ...

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 ...

GOMA, Congo (AP) — Rwanda-backed rebels in eastern Congo entered the region’s second-largest city of Bukavu ... The rebels were “imposing an urban war by attacking the positions of the ...

Rwanda-backed M23 rebels took the Congolese trading hub of Goma last week, leaving thousands dead and wounded and raising concerns of a regional war. Congo and ... the world’s second-largest ...