Marcus Bachmann, Doctors Without Borders (MSF) head of programmes for South Kivu province, explains the situation in this part of eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) as the conflict evolves.

Bukavu rises from chaos, but scars remain. Looters and rebels left devastation, yet merchants return, clinging to hope. As ...

Mine shafts snake under the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo's mountains, but instead of the Congolese government their ...

Shell casings from automatic weapons littered the plot, leftovers from the conflict between the Congolese army and the Rwanda-backed M23 armed group that had until recently riven their Sake hometown.

Jordan Bita preferred to risk his life swimming across a roaring river than stay at home and be conscripted by rebels in ...

The militants, Baloch ethnic fighters, said they would kill dozens of seized security personnel if the Pakistani government ...

Scores of people have fled since the fighters reached outlying districts of Bukavu, capital of South Kivu province ... in their homes for safety. Men, women and children, some of whom picked ...

In the North and South Kivu provinces ... charred bodies of female prisoner who were raped and then burned alive. More than 100 armed groups are vying for control of Congo's mineral-rich east ...

Mine shafts snake under the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo's mountains, but instead of the Congolese government their ...

Kanyuka argues that the M23 fighters did not raid but conducted a peaceful operation against 130 Armed Forces of Democratic ...

Six weeks after Rwanda-backed rebels captured the eastern Congolese cities of Goma and Bukavu, the region is facing a setback ...