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

Nearly 3,000 people were killed over the last week as rebels captured a key city in one of the deadliest battles in the ...

There is a good chance that inside your mobile phone is a miniscule amount of a metal that started its journey buried in the ...

Rwanda-backed rebels gained ground in eastern Congo on Wednesday despite the unilateral ceasefire they declared earlier this week, taking control of a town 100 kilometers (60 ...

The AFC/M23 rebel coalition announced late on Monday that it would implement a unilateral ceasefire starting on Tuesday. The ...

DRC President Felix Tshisekedi and Rwandan President Paul Kagame will attend a summit on Saturday as a Rwanda-backed armed ...

Thirty years after the violence, a related border conflict escalates, with control of mineral wealth at stake.

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.

Rwandan-backed M23 rebels say they are now in control of the key eastern Congolese city of Goma. Their fighters continue to ...