Critical minerals factor into the fight.

There is a good chance that inside your mobile phone is a miniscule amount of a metal that started its journey buried in the ...

Fighting has escalated sharply in recent weeks in eastern Congo, where rebels have seized key towns and are closing in on the ...

Nearly 300 foreign mercenaries hired by the Democratic Republic of Congo government to counter a swift offensive by ...

ramping up the risk of a return to full-blown regional war. Burundi has had soldiers in eastern Congo for years, initially to hunt down Burundian rebels there but, more recently, supporting ...

The U.N. voices concern over alleged atrocities as Rwandan-backed rebels reportedly advance after seizing the city of Goma in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

A conflict that has raged for decades reached a flashpoint this week when rebels backed by Rwanda marched on a key Congolese ...

The looming threat of a Third Congo War—following the two devastating conflicts of the 1990s that claimed six million lives, mostly civilians, through mass starvation and disease—underscores ...

ramping up the risk of a return to full-blown regional war. Burundi has had soldiers in eastern Congo for years, initially to hunt down Burundian rebels there but, more recently, supporting ...

Congolese forces were losing control of the city of Goma on Wednesday after rebel groups backed by Rwanda took over the ...