Sixteen-year-old Darkuna watched, terrified, as six gun-wielding men ransacked her home. She would become one of many ...

Fighting by Islamic State and other terrorist groups over minerals and power has led to widespread killings and rape in the ...

More than a month after rebels captured Goma, the capital of DRC’s North Kivu province, humanitarian workers dispute the UN’s ...

Frank, a World Vision staff member, lost two family members—Laurianne and Jean-Pierre—when the M23 siege on Goma turned their ...

A conflict that has simmered in Democratic Republic of Congo’s eastern borderlands for years is set to erupt into a wider ...

The latest conflict in eastern Congo has exposed endemic weaknesses in the country’s military, long known for corruption, extortion and abuse.

African leaders on Thursday announced the withdrawal of thousands of troops from South Africa, Tanzania and Malawi who were ...

Since January, however, the rapid conquest and occupation of a huge area of the Democratic Republic of Congo ... Within days of Goma’s fall, Corneille Nangaa, the tubby, white-bearded leader of the ...

At least half a million people have been displaced by the fighting in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo over the past two ...

Angolan President Joao Lourenco, the African Union’s peace mediator for the conflict in Congo, is pushing for direct talks ...

Six weeks after Rwanda-backed rebels captured the eastern Congolese cities of Goma and Bukavu, the region is facing a setback ...

Islamic State-linked rebels have killed at least nine villagers in an attack in Congo’s conflict-battered east.