Canada and Germany announced punitive measures against Rwanda, accusing it of supporting the AFC/M23 rebels in eastern DR Congo. The Canadian government suspended the issuance of permits for the ...

Since January, however, the rapid conquest and occupation of a huge area of the Democratic Republic of Congo by Rwanda and ...

A UNITED Nations (UN) expert has called for urgent support for human rights defenders in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Mary Lawlor, UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human ...

A conflict that has simmered in Democratic Republic of Congo’s eastern borderlands for years is set to erupt into a wider ...

By taking Goma, the M23 and Rwanda crossed a Rubicon, as Kinshasa’s leaders cannot brook an all-out invasion of North and ...

Rwanda-backed M23 rebels abducted at least 130 sick and wounded men from two hospitals in a major city in eastern Congo, the United Nations said Monday.

Conditions continue to worsen dramatically in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, where 25.5 million people face the ...

The latest conflict in eastern Congo has exposed endemic weaknesses in the country’s military, long known for corruption, extortion and abuse.

Many of the world’s rare minerals are in the DRC. Western companies are heavily involved in mining them. They prefer a weak government in ...

DRC hopes opening its vast mine fields to the Western world will pave way to long lasting ...

A diplomatic rift between Rwanda and the United Kingdom has deepened following false claims made by UK Minister for Africa, ...

FOR over three decades, the global powers at the United Nations have been acutely aware of the complex and tragic dynamics underpinning the violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Since th ...