Congo’s former President Joseph Kabila has accused the government of turning into a dictatorship with the backing of the ...

KINSHASA, Congo — Congo’s Senate has voted overwhelmingly to lift former President Joseph Kabila's parliamentary immunity, ...

A coalition of Congolese army-backed militias known as the "Wazalendo" have recently committed widespread abuses against ...

Tropical forests in eastern Congo that fell into rebel hands this year have seen a spike in illegal logging to produce ...

As violence intensifies in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the World Food Programme (WFP) warned Friday that ...

M23 rebels seized Sake after intense fighting, forcing nearly all 130,000 residents to flee their homes and farms.

In our previous article, "The 67-year struggle for congolese Tutsi citizenship must end," we explored how the Kinyarwanda-speaking community's electoral victories in Eastern DR Congo fueled resentment ...

Army-backed militias, collectively known as the 'Wazalendo,' committed widespread human rights abuses against civilians in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), according to Human Rights Watch ...

Endangered gorilla habitats threatened in rebel-held Congo - Conservationists warn that the charcoal boom is coming at a ...

And despite Congo’s army and M23 having agreed to work toward a truce earlier this month, fighting continues in the province of South-Kivu. On Friday, Human Rights Watch said a Congolese army ...

"At least 3,000 bags (of charcoal) enter Bukavu daily, or head towards Goma," said Josue Aruna, head of the NGO Environmental and Agro-Rural Civil Society of Congo in South Kivu. Goma is the ...

The Congolese government has supported the Wazalendo (“patriots” in Swahili) to fight against the abusive M23, although the extent of the army’s ...