The U.N. Human Rights Council will hold a special meeting to discuss the situation in the eastern Congo city of Goma after it ...

The international community must take concrete action and impose sanctions on Rwanda to curb the M23 rebel conflict in ...

Since then, more than 700 people have been killed, with thousands more forced to seek refuge elsewhere. This comes as South Africa and Rwanda have been engaged in a war of words over their interests ...

Rwanda-backed rebels claimed on Monday they captured eastern Congo’s strategic city of Goma, the hub of a region containing ...

The remains of 14 South African soldiers killed in the conflict in eastern DR Congo more than a week ago are due home on ...

Critical minerals factor into the fight.

A rebel alliance claimed the capture of the biggest city in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s mineral-rich eastern region ...

International protests spring up in South Africa and Brussels as demonstrators call for the EU and the global community to do more to sanction those accused of enflaming the ...

South Africa often uses its diplomatic heft to position itself as defender of the "global south" on the world stage, but the ...

As the rebels gained the upper hand in the battlefield by capturing most of Goma - the biggest city in the east - South ...

Rwanda has criticized South Africa's military involvement in eastern DR Congo, accusing Pretoria of fighting on the behalf of Congolese President Félix Tshisekedi while masking economic interests ...

The U.S. gave it more than $6.5 billion in humanitarian assistance last year for wide-ranging projects like disease response, ...