International sanctions against Rwanda will reduce the incentive for Kinshasa to engage in peace talks with M23 rebels who ...

An unknown illness first discovered in three children who ate a bat has rapidly killed more than 50 people in northwestern ...

Over 50 deaths have been linked to an "unknown disease" in the Democratic Republic of Congo since January. Nearly half ...

The disease, which has infected more than 400 people and killed 53 within a few weeks, “poses a significant public health ...

World Health Organization officials said the outbreak appeared to originate from a village where three children died after ...

The outbreak has been traced, tentatively, to three children who ate a bat, the W.H.O. said, and known threats like Ebola and ...

The Democratic Republic of Congo is considering introducing cobalt export quotas as the world's biggest supplier of the ...

Comfort Ero, President of the International Crisis Group, talks to Bianna Golodryga about what’s driving the deadly crisis in ...

South Africa's armed forces say a group of soldiers critically injured in fighting in eastern Congo a month ago have been ...

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U.K. authorities are punishing Rwanda over its support of the rebels who now control two major cities in eastern Congo ...