Fighting by Islamic State and other terrorist groups over minerals and power has led to widespread killings and rape in the ...

Rwanda-backed rebels captured a key eastern Congo city a month ago Friday. Residents in Goma say they are struggling on ...

More than a month after rebels captured Goma, the capital of DRC’s North Kivu province, humanitarian workers dispute the UN’s ...

The Rwanda-backed M23 armed group and the allied Alliance Fleuve Congo have threatened, detained, and attacked journalists, critics, and civil society activists since capturing Goma in January.

The heavily armed rebels do not act alone. They are backed by neighbouring Rwanda, according to the UN and the US. Rwanda ...

Angolan President Joao Lourenco, the African Union’s peace mediator for the conflict in Congo, is pushing for direct talks ...

African leaders have announced the withdrawal of thousands of troops from South Africa, Tanzania and Malawi, who were sent to ...

Congolese soldiers near the city of Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo, in January, shortly before the M23 militia captured the city. The latest conflict in eastern Congo has exposed endemic ...

At the 58th regular session of the U.N. Human Rights Council, Caritas Internationalis highlighted the widespread effects of ...

Creating sustainable peace in Congo requires giving justice to the victims of war crimes and preventing the illicit trade in minerals.

A professor of global health was in Kivu when the fighting began to rage. She recounts what she and her colleagues ...

Sixteen-year-old Darkuna watched, terrified, as six gun-wielding men ransacked her home. She would become one of many ...