Creating sustainable peace in Congo requires giving justice to the victims of war crimes and preventing the illicit trade in ...

Tens of thousands of IDPs are leaving and routine is tentatively returning, as residents hope for peace despite crisis.

The M23 rebel group have captured the city of Goma in the eastern DRC in a major escalation of a drawn-out conflict.

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

Analysis - Apart from the heavy human cost, the return of hybrid warfare to the Democratic Republic of the Congo risks stability on the continent.

The International Organization for Migration (IOM), is deeply concerned about the hundreds of thousands of civilians ...

A senior U.N. official in the Democratic Republic of Congo said Wednesday that nearly 3,000 people have been killed in a ...

“You have the volcano on one side, the lake on the other, and it’s in extremely close proximity to the Rwandan border. That means that once you have lost Goma, it’s going to be extremely difficult for ...

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

The risk of further eruptions from volcano Nyiragongo led DR ... a densely populated area of the city of Goma in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. Twenty-two people, most of them women and ...

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“You have the volcano on one side ... Meanwhile, France has sided with the DRC. “As Goma prepares to fall, France expresses its solidarity with the Democratic Republic of Congo and its ...