Eastern Congo’s collapse into chaos is not just another regional conflict—it’s a long-simmering crisis rooted in colonial borders, post-independence misrule, and modern-day battles for ...

Why DR Congo's army struggles against the smaller M23 Nikolas Fischer 03/14/2025March 14, 2025 M23 fighters, backed by Rwanda, continue to advance into eastern DR Congo.

FRANCE 24 spoke to the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), Karim Khan. Last October, he announced that he had reopened an investigation in DR Congo into allegations of crimes ...

The DR Congo's government is not an innocent victim in this story. It has actively fueled conflicts, armed rebels, and allowed corruption to flourish at every level.

RUSAVE, Congo — The warlord brimmed with anger. For more than a year, Kasongo Kalomo had ruled this region through guns, beatings and extortion.

YAOUNDÉ, Cameroon – Cardinal Fridolin Ambongo of Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of Congo, who is also President of the Symposium of Episcopal Conferences of Africa and Madagascar (SECAM ...

The U.S. does not allow conflict minerals in its territories. The United Nations accused Rwanda of supporting the M23 rebels in exchange for illegally mined Congo minerals.

Shortly before, he’d lamented Congo’s policy of integrating former warlords into its national army in the interest of everyone getting along.

These regions remain poor and brutally violent as militias, warlords, and politicians from Congo and abroad scramble to control the riches in the soil; regions where over 120 illegal armed groups ...

The Hague - Appeals judges at the International Criminal Court on Monday upheld the conviction of a Congolese warlord who was sentenced to 14 years for recruiting and using child soldiers, bringing to ...

These two excellent ethnographic works probe the persistent civil conflicts in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Many recent investigations of contemporary civil wars in Africa have fixated on the ...