Nearly 3,000 people were killed over the last week as rebels captured a key city in one of the deadliest battles in the ...

C orneille nangaa sits in an armchair in a five-star-hotel in Goma, the largest city in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo ...

LAC VERT, Democratic Republic of Congo (Reuters) - Widow Francine Nsengiyumva and her three children have little to eat and ...

To what end though, one would ask. The Congo is one of Africa’s giant nation-states. In fact, as is often emphasised with a tinge of cynicism, I must hasten to add, the Congo is the world’s ...

A rebel group that claimed to have captured the city of Goma in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo last week has called for an immediate humanitarian ceasefire, after fighting with the Congolese ...

Many of the millions of people trapped in eastern Congo’s escalating rebellion face a terrible choice: Retreat into Congo’s ...

But in Africa, its efforts to exert influence have been plagued by missteps over the past decade. In Democratic Republic of Congo this week, Rwandan-backed M23 rebels seized Goma, the country's ...

African countries on Tuesday condemned attacks on their diplomatic missions in the capital of the Congo as M23 rebels continued their offensive in Goma. Protesters attacked the French and US ...

Rwanda’s Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Olivier Nduhungirehe, has refuted the claim made by Burundian President Evariste Ndayishimiye that the Burundi National Defense ...

LAC VERT, Democratic Republic of Congo, Feb 2 (Reuters ... year-old Nsengiyumva said it would not be safe to go back to her village of Nzulo, near Goma. "Those who took our land are still ...