African leaders have announced the withdrawal of thousands of troops from South Africa, Tanzania and Malawi, who were sent to ...

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

Since January, however, the rapid conquest and occupation of a huge area of the Democratic Republic of Congo by Rwanda and ...

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

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

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

The fall of the town put Goma, around 40 km (25 miles) away, in the rebels' sights. The rebel group marched into eastern Congo's largest city Goma, in the worst escalation of a long-running ...

The United Nations says the Rwanda-backed M23 rebels have abducted at least 130 sick and wounded men in two hospitals in a ...

Angola has acted as a mediator in the conflict in eastern Congo, which escalated in late January when the Rwanda-backed ...

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

The Rwanda-backed rebel group M23 has seized swathes of mineral-rich eastern Congo since the start of the year. "M23 has taken Nyabiondo since 11 am (0900 GMT), following clashes," Kipanda Biiri, an ...