Congo’s largest church organizations met Wednesday with Rwanda-backed rebels in the country’s east in the latest push for peace and dialogue after weekslong fighting that saw ...

Jan. 10, 2025 — A new study based on the sampling and analysis of volcanic ash at Cumbre Vieja volcano in the Canary Islands, located off Africa's northwest coast, suggests that the composition ...

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On the streets I once walked and drove down daily, near the shopping centre where I bought my groceries, dead bodies lay ...

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called for mediation in the eastern Congo ahead of two meetings to address ...

More than 100 female inmates of an African prison were raped and burned alive during a jailbreak, the United Nations said.

A ceasefire in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo doesn't appear to be holding, deputy U.N. envoy in Congo Vivian van de ...

GOMA, Congo (AP) — Congo's government on Tuesday described the unilateral ceasefire declared by Rwanda-backed rebels in ...

GOMA, Congo (AP) — The Rwanda-backed rebels who seized eastern Congo’s key city of Goma announced a unilateral ceasefire in the region Monday for humanitarian reasons, following calls for a safe ...

RWANDA has the best economy in Africa and receives over US$1 billion international grants every year from the European Union (EU), the United Kingdom (UK) and the United States (US). But wait until ...

Large parts of Goma, in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, are now under the control of the M23 and their Rwanda ...