WIDESPREAD KILLING, RAPE, DISEASE AND WAR MAKE DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO HELL ON EARTH A heavy equipment operator directs a driver transporting ore in a large truck at the Tenke Fungurume ...

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

Yet the war unfolding in the Democratic Republic of Congo remains an afterthought. A bloody conflict is met with condemnations but no meaningful action. This stark contrast is not just neglect ...

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

In parts of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), communities are gearing up for war or fleeing to safety amid the advance of M23 rebels, who captured the key eastern cities of Goma and ...

As M23 rebels take Bukavu and the conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo worsens, Michel Tissier, peace advocate and humanitarian, explores its roots and urges Europe, particularly Belgium ...

Rwanda suspended development cooperation with Belgium for trying to “sabotage” its access to financing amid disagreements over its role in the conflict in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.

Congo's president says he is going to launch ... “I lost the battle and not the war. I must reach out to everyone including the opposition. There will be a government of national unity," said ...

This suggests the region could be in for a replay of the second Congo war of 1998-2003. Back then, Rwanda and Uganda sent their armies into Congo to vie for influence, with devastating effects on ...

The second Sudanese civil war lasted from 1983 to 2005 and ended with the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA). In 2011, nearly 99 percent of South Sudanese voted in favor of the independence ...

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 ...

Kinshasa (AFP) – DR Congo's prime minister said Monday that "more than 7,000" people have been killed in the east of the country since January, when the Rwanda-backed M23 group seized two major ...