With over 105 million people, the DR Congo is a mosaic of 250 ethnic groups and 700 languages, a testament to its rich cultural diversity. However, in the eastern provinces of North and South Kivu, ...

Critical minerals factor into the fight.

Angola’s President Joao ... “South Africa’s military presence in eastern DRC (Democratic Republic of Congo) is not a declaration of war against any country or state,” he said.

Amnesty International has accused Congo’s army and a rebel group of bombing densely populated areas in attacks that “likely constitute war crimes.” KINSHASA, Congo -- Prominent human rights ...

The recent history of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DR Congo) has been one of civil war and corruption. It is rich in ...

Angolan President Joao Lourenco, who’s been mediating peace talks between Rwanda and Democratic Republic of Congo, called for the withdrawal of Rwandan-backed M23 rebels from the city of Goma ...

Türkiye has offered to provide any kind of support that could influence parties to the Congo conflict to end the war.

Rwandan-backed rebels who have swept through eastern Congo ... want war, then may God forgive us, but we will fight ... to defend our own," Albert Kahasha, a former rebel and ex-army officer ...

NAIROBI - As Rwanda-backed M23 rebels in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo push south ... Burundi's 1993-2005 civil war, which killed 300,000 people, its military put in place an ethnic quota ...

Burundi troops in Congo ... regional war. Burundi has had soldiers in eastern Congo for years, initially to hunt down Burundian rebels there but, more recently, supporting Kinshasa's army in ...

FILE - M23 rebels stand with their weapons in Kibumba, in the eastern of Democratic Republic of Congo, Dec. 23, 2022. (AP Photo/Moses Sawasawa, File) ...