The shooting happened Wednesday morning as officers from several departments responded to a pursuit that started in Butler County.

Congolese authorities say at least 50 people were killed in weekend attacks in the country's conflict-hit east where government forces are fighting Rwanda-backed rebels ...

London-based boxer Michael King is describing how he grew up in DR Congo against the backdrop of civil war. As he continues to tell his story, which contains lengthy chapters on becoming homeless ...

Rwanda-backed M23 rebels battle pro-government fighters in North Kivu and South Kivu province after truce talks.

Regional civil society organisations have petitioned the heads of states from Southern and East African to put in place mechanisms to protect civilians in the war-torn eastern Congo. In a ...

We improve access to water and hygiene. We promote knowledge of and respect for international humanitarian law and universal humanitarian principles among civil society, authorities and weapon bearers ...

Leading sources for those critically important metals (known as the “3 T’s”) are mined in Congo, where a brutal civil war has claimed more than five million lives since the late-1990s.

Wherever war breaks out, men with guns rape. During the decades of conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo possibly hundreds of thousands of women and girls were brutally raped. In WEAPON OF ...

A convicted war criminal based in Uganda has announced a new rebel movement intent on toppling the government in eastern Congo's Ituri province, creating another potential security threat in the ...

The convicted war criminal, Thomas Lubanga ... aimed at overthrowing the government in Ituri province, eastern Congo, posing yet another security threat in the conflict-ravaged region.

ALSO READ: DR Congo crisis: EAC-SADC ministers agree to pursue political, military tracks The civil society group called upon all concerned global leaders to revisit the sanctions regime and ...

ALSO READ: DR Congo crisis: EAC-SADC ministers agree to pursue political, military tracks The civil society group called upon all concerned global leaders to revisit the sanctions regime and ...