As M23 rebels continue to gain ground in South Kivu in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the country's top UN humanitarian official has told UN News that increasing "complexity and ...
The M23, backed by Rwanda, has overpowered the poorly trained Congolese army, while Uganda, Burundi and South Africa have ...
On 14 February, the M23 rebels, backed by the Rwandan army, seized control of Kavumu Airport, located about 30 kilometres ...
The UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) on Thursday issued a stark warning over escalating violence in eastern Democratic Republic of ...
Nearly three thousand people have been killed in the city of Goma in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, according to ...
People trade at the Rwanda-DRC Rubavu border in a past photo. After nearly three years of restrictions on operational hours ...
The external influences at play in eastern DRC are a direct result of the DRC’s failure in governance, further exacerbated by ...
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After bearing witness to waves of fighting throughout the 1990s and early 2000s, the eastern Congo city of Bukavu may once ...
Congo has launched a plan for the world's largest protected area - but Indigenous and local people say they haven't been ...
Days after protests erupted over Goma's fall to M23 rebels and Rwandan forces, Kinshasa remained paralyzed. Fear has halted ...
A rebel group that claimed to have captured the city of Goma in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo last week has called ...