This extraordinary story is told in a new documentary ... The Belgian Congo was kept as a bubble and the people were kept ignorant, both in Belgium and in Congo,” he says. He makes the comparison with ...

The war erupting in the Democratic Republic of Congo has its roots in the Rwandan genocide and the bloodiest war of the 21st ...

Rwanda-backed M23 insurgents shot dead three boys who had picked up guns left by Congolese soldiers fleeing the rebel advance ...

That will determine, to a larger extent, whether we have a full-scale war ... in the Congo," said Makhubela. "The eastern DR Congo has clearly become an epicenter of all sorts of civil militia ...

“It will increase the risk of regional war, especially with Burundi,” Fred Bauma, the executive director of Ebuteli, a research group specializing on Congo, said about Bukavu’s fal ...

Panic swept through eastern Congo’s second-largest city on Saturday as residents fled by the thousands, scrambling to escape ...

The group waged the First Congo War from October 1996 to May 1997 that ended with the overthrow of the DRC’s long-time ruler, Mobutu Sese Seko. Kabila became president. Kagame and Museveni ...

Three days after Donald Trump’s inauguration in January, Rwanda-backed M23 rebels stormed the city of Goma in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo. Now, as the fog of war lifts from the ...

The east of DR Congo has been engulfed in fighting as armed ... It is high time for this war to end. Humanity above all!" Martin Fayulu, an opposition leader who came third in the 2023 general ...

European Union lawmakers called for a halt to financial assistance for Rwanda because of its support for the M23 rebel insurgency in neighboring Democratic Republic of Congo. The lawmakers urged ...