A high-stakes joint summit of the East African Community (EAC) and the Southern African Development Community (SADC) officially kicked off in Tanzania on Saturday, with regional leaders demanding an ...

Leaders of Central Africa demanded the Rwanda-backed M23 armed group stop its offensive in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, and called on Friday for the opening of an aid pipeline.

Rwanda has economic as well as security interests. Kigali denies UN evidence that it smuggles vast amounts of gold and other ...

Any honest evaluation of the current situation in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) points to an egocentric political ...

Continued clashes in South Kivu in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) are triggering mass displacement and ...

Rwanda's Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Olivier Nduhungirehe, on Thursday, February 6, met with Huang Xia, the United Nations Special Envoy for the Great Lakes region, to ...

A South African defence expert, Helmoed Heitman, says the Southern African Development Community mission in DR Congo (SAMIDRC) is a complete failure and the bloc should negotiate its ...

The United Nations Human Rights Council today agreed by consensus to launch an urgent fact-finding mission and commission of ...

The UN reports a tragic toll of 3,000 dead and 2,880 injured in DR Congo’s conflict, highlighting increased sexual violence ...

UN human rights chief Volker Turk told an emergency meeting of the Human Rights Council that he was deeply disturbed by the ...

The UN's top human rights body on Friday launched an investigation into alleged abuses during the escalating crisis in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DR Congo) and adopted a resolution ...