The United Nations meanwhile said the battle for the key city of Goma, which the M23 and Rwandan troops seized last week, had ...

The Malawi troops are part of a contingent of soldiers from the Southern African regional bloc deployed in Congo to help it tackle armed insurgents ...

The city's bishop, Willy Ngumbi, on Wednesday deplored damage to a maternity ward from explosives and called on Rwanda, Congo ...

In Central Africa lies a country, almost a subcontinent, roughly the size of all of Western Europe—one of the richest countries in terms of resources, yet one of the poorest in terms of resource gain ...

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

According to the United Nations, hundreds of women were raped and then burned alive during a jailbreak in Goma, DR Congo.

The United Nations Human Rights Council should create an independent mandate to investigate abuses by all parties to the ...

Rwanda-backed rebels gained ground in eastern Congo on Wednesday despite the unilateral ceasefire they declared earlier this ...

International Criminal Court prosecutors said on Wednesday they were closely monitoring events in Democratic Republic of ...

WWF works to sustain the natural world for the benefit of people and wildlife, collaborating with partners from local to ...

For centuries, locals have told stories of mokele-mbembe, a legendary creature said to lurk in the Congo Basin. But as ...

Lubumbashi is little known, but its minerals electrified the world, created atom bombs and are key to greener energy, the ...