In eastern Congo, at least 10 people have been killed by extremist rebels linked to the Islamic State. The Allied Democratic ...

Lt. Col. Ndjike Kaiko Guillaume, the FARDC spokesperson for North Kivu province, announced the launch of “Operation ...

At least 10 people were killed in eastern Congo by extremist rebels linked to the Islamic State group, a local official said ...

Rebel group M23 have captured two more towns in North Kivu in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, local sources say, after ...

Lt. Col. Willy Ngoma, the M23 rebels’ military spokesperson, released a statement in the wee hours of Saturday morning saying ...

The Democratic Republic of Congo is mulling cutting diplomatic ties and ditching joint projects with Uganda over tweets by ...

Rwanda backtracked Wednesday from an earlier claim that it had discovered its first oil reserves in Lake Kivu, saying it was still in an exploratory phase and looking for partners.

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UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is alarmed by the worsening violence in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), which has already displaced 237,000 people this year. Escalating clashes ...

Rwandan President Paul Kagame has called on Congolese authorities to open negotiations with the M23 rebel group ...

The March 23 Movement (M23) has dislodged the Armed Forces of Democratic Republic of Congo (FARDC) soldiers and militia ...

This is the second town seized by the M23 group in as many days in the mineral-rich North Kivu province. The group has taken ...