BUKAVU - An uneasy calm held on Sunday on the DR Congo's eastern front after regional powers dreading a wider war urged Congolese and pro-Rwandan forces to agree to a ceasefire.In recent months the ...

Regional leaders of eight East African Community (EAC) countries, and the 16-member South African Development Community (SADC ...

Rising casualties in the strife-torn Kivu sees citizens pile pressure on leaders to get ...

We have responsibility to support all efforts to bring peace, stability to our fellow African nation,' says President ...

President Cyril Ramaphosa has reiterated South Africa’s commitment to a diplomatic solution that ensures stability in the ...

President Cyril Ramaphosa says the East African Community (EAC) and the Southern African Development Community (SADC) are to ...

Continued clashes in South Kivu in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) are triggering mass displacement and causing civilian casualties, UN humanitarian affairs office OCHA said on ...

Conflict in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo has "multiplied" the risk of the spread of diseases, including ...

More than 150 female prisoners were raped and burned to death during a jailbreak last week when fleeing male inmates set fire ...

The M23, whose top brass are mostly Congolese Tutsi, began its insurgency more than three years ago after a decade of dormancy, seizing large parts of North Kivu province before finally grabbing Goma, ...

UN human rights chief Volker Turk told an emergency meeting of the Human Rights Council that he was deeply disturbed by the ...

Rwanda claims to have evidence of an intended attack by the Democratic Republic of Congo, denying any role in the unrest ...