The DRC seeks to offer key minerals to the U.S., but rebel forces and China largely control access to these vital rare earth resources, which are said to be worth trillions of dollars.

Despite the risks from deadly armed groups roaming the countryside, Judith Kahindo walks alone every day to her isolated cocoa plantation in the war-torn North Kivu region of the eastern Democratic ...

Congo's former President Joseph Kabila has initiated talks with opposition politicians about the country's political future ...

Both the judiciary and civil society have been steadily politicized ... Peering over the abyss of a looming third Congo War, Rwanda must decide how far it intends to reshape the geography of the ...

The United States spent decades responding to conflicts and disease in Africa. The continent is now expected to be the ...

The latest conflict in eastern Congo has exposed endemic weaknesses in the country’s military, long known for corruption, extortion and abuse.

committing human rights abuses and bringing Congo to the brink of civil war. The ex-president has been equally withering in private, according to sources that either spoke to Kabila directly or ...

"The city of Kisangani became a war zone in 2000 as Ugandan ... "The eastern DR Congo has clearly become an epicenter of all sorts of civil militia groups, and the Congolese government has no ...

Acting on an arrest warrant from the ICC, Philippine authorities arrested Duterte in Manila yesterday and put him on a plane ...

Due to fighting involving the ADF, people had been forced to move to nearby villages in the war ... Congo entered the region’s second-largest city of Bukavu on Friday, local and civil society ...

He is the author of “The Plot to Save South Africa: The Week Mandela Averted Civil War and Forged ... of his army were in war-torn eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) or not.