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

By Fergus O’Leary SimpsonJoel MasselinkLara Collart The resurgence of the M23 (March 23 movement) rebel group has once again ...

Will offers of resource wealth to the US and other powers help bring militia violence to heel in the Democratic Republic of ...

The International Rescue Committee (IRC) is deeply concerned by the catastrophic deterioration of health services and humanitarian conditions, including an alarming cholera outbreak in North and South ...

This discussion has been edited for clarity. Mongabay: How is the current conflict situation in eastern DRC affecting minorities and Indigenous peoples? Samuel Ade Ndasi: The current conflict ...

The government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the Rwanda-backed M23 rebels will hold talks next week, mediator Angola has announced. A statement from President Joao Lourenco’s ...

Some 7,000 people have died since January in fighting in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), its prime minister ... than a decade of the long-running conflict in eastern Congo.

The M23 has continued to gain ground in eastern DR Congo and last month seized the region's second-biggest city, Bukavu.

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