Twenty Burundian troops have been killed in fighting with the M23 armed group and Rwandan troops supporting it in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, military sources told AFP on Thursday."We have ...

Sixteen-year-old Darkuna watched, terrified, as six gun-wielding men ransacked her home. “For God’s sake, what do you really ...

KINSHASA - Democratic Republic of Congo President Felix Tshisekedi has long ruled out dialogue with the Rwanda-backed M23 ...

Rwanda and Burundi are engaged in ongoing talks aimed at reaching “a common understanding” and to calm tensions that resulted from the conflict in eastern DR Congo, says the Minister of Foreign ...

The European Union is expected to sanction nine individuals in connection with violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo, ...

The Banyene family’s return to Sake, a town in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), was far from a homecoming.

The European Investment Bank is holding off on decisions to finance the $760m Ruzizi III hydropower plant in Central Africa, ...

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

Southern African leaders have announced the phased withdrawal of regional troops from the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), where ...

The M23 is one of the most important actors operating in the DRC territory, allegedly supported by Rwanda. While the M23’s ...

The M23 has continued to gain ground in eastern DR Congo and last month seized the region's second-biggest city, Bukavu.

Since January, however, the rapid conquest and occupation of a huge area of the Democratic Republic of Congo by Rwanda and ...