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

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

Since January, however, the rapid conquest and occupation of a huge area of the Democratic Republic of Congo by Rwanda and the ... hosting seven million displaced people could be engulfed in a ...

The horrific discovery was made in an abandoned village in the DR Congo this Friday ... involving the ADF, people had been forced to move to nearby villages in the war torn country.

Rwanda-backed rebels in eastern Congo entered the region ... of the city of about 1.3 million people, according to Jean Samy, vice-president of the civil society in South Kivu.

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

beginning his career as aide-de-camp to now-President Paul Kagame during his insurgency in the Rwandan Civil War. He led Rwandan-backed rebel forces during the First Congo War that saw the ...

and talent but also civil war, corruption, and government dysfunction. In Goma and throughout much of the Democratic R e public of Congo (DRC), parents must pay school fees that can be a barrier ...

The DR Congo's ongoing crisis ... They integrated people into the provincial government. But it didn't prevent Rwanda or the M23 from starting a war again," he said. He pointed out that President ...

Their humanity and resilience stand in stark contrast to the relentless suffering foisted upon them - tribulations so ...

People in the eastern DR Congo city of Bukavu gather after a rally organised by civil society groups in support of the M23 movement - Copyright AFP Jim WATSON People ...

With people fleeing an escalating war between M23 rebels and Congolese ... as families flee fighting in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). "Just in the first two weeks, we have received ...