On Jan. 28, the Rwanda-backed rebel group M23 captured Goma, capital city of the Democratic Republic of Congo’s mineral-rich ...

Thirty years after the violence, a related border conflict escalates, with control of mineral wealth at stake.

UNICEF is on the ground in the Democratic Republic of the Congo delivering urgently needed humanitarian assistance —but more help is needed as violence intensifies in the eastern provinces.

DRC President Felix Tshisekedi and Rwandan President Paul Kagame will attend a summit on Saturday as a Rwanda-backed armed ...

The Rwandan-backed M23 group on Friday advanced south after seizing the biggest city in mineral-rich eastern DR Congo, in ...

The U.N.'s top human rights body agreed Friday to a text presented by Congo that “firmly condemns” support of rebel fighters ...

“Conflict-related sexual violence has been an appalling feature of armed conflict in eastern DRC for ... South Kivu, following M23’s takeover nearly a week ago of Goma — North Kivu’s ...

Nearly 3,000 people were killed over the last week as rebels captured a key city in one of the deadliest battles in the ...

North Kivu and Ituri provinces were scheduled to follow this year. However, the M23 rebels' offensive in North Kivu has evidently led to a shift in the Congolese government's stance.

Widow Francine Nsengiyumva and her three children have little to eat and sleep on the hard ground, but like many others at a ...

Nearly 1,000 have also been wounded, according to an AFP tally of tolls from Goma's overflowing hospitals, in three days of intense fighting that have left the eastern DRC's main city on the brink ...

Signs of Burundian troops in the eastern DRC province of South Kivu have been mounting in recent weeks, even if both Gitega and Kinshasa insist the Forces armées du Burundi (FAB) are not present on ...