Congo, which is rich in cobalt, lithium and uranium, has been fighting Rwanda-backed M23 rebels that seized swathes of its ...

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

More than 400 children in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) recruited into conflict in first two months of 2025 ...

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

Six weeks after Rwanda-backed rebels captured the eastern Congolese cities of Goma and Bukavu, the region is facing a setback ...

At least half a million people have been displaced by the fighting in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo over the past two ...

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

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

The Southern African Development Community (SADC) said on Thursday that a summit of regional heads of state had terminated ...

The Rwanda-backed M23 armed group cautiously welcomed Thursday the prospect of direct negotiations with the Congolese government to end the conflict in the volatile eastern Democratic Republic of ...

For decades, the Congo Basin was largely invisible to climate science. Now, a new generation of Central African researchers ...

When the Banyene family were sent back to their home in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, all that had survived the ...