The Rwanda -backed M23 armed group has unlawfully ordered tens of thousands of displaced people to leave the camps around Goma in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, Human Rights Watch said today.

US Agency for International Development employees this week recounted the panic they experienced in the days after they were ordered to return from their assignments in the Democratic Republic of ...

An uneasy calm held Sunday on the Democratic Republic of Congo's eastern front after regional powers dreading a wider war ...

Leaders from eastern and southern Africa on Saturday called for an immediate ceasefire in eastern Congo, where rebels are threatening to overthrow the Congolese government, ...

International: Fighting between Rwandan-backed M23 rebels and Congolese armed forces has exacerbated an already "dire ...

Nearly three thousand people have been killed in the city of Goma in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, according to ...

The rebels on Monday said they did not intend to seize Bukavu or other areas, though they earlier expressed ambition to march on Congo’s capital, Kinshasa, a thousand miles away. “However, we ...

In the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), the proliferation of criminal youth gangs is at an all-time high. The government ...

The Rwanda-backed armed group M23 has vowed to march on the capital Kinshasa after capturing eastern DRC's biggest ... it is ...

National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) member Todd Inman said on Friday that he spent the past several hours with the victims’ families, and that they are getting assistance. “Our job is to make ...

Kinshasa, while Congo’s president called for a massive military mobilisation to resist the rebellion and his defence minister rejected calls for talks. In a video message, Congo’s Defence ...

We will stay here in Congo and fight. If we do not stay alive here, let’s stay dead here,’ said Congo’s defence minister.