The M23 rebels took control of the North Kivu mining town a day after Félix Tshisekedi and Paul Kagame called for an ...

The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is having “daily exchanges” with the United States government with the aim of securing a minerals-for-security deal, Congolese officials have told ...

Fighting in the eastern DRC continues as the M23 rebel group consolidates control over the Lake Kivu region and clashes with ...

The Southern African country has been trying to mediate a lasting ceasefire and de-escalate tensions between the DRC and neighboring Rwanda, which has been accused of backing the Tutsi-led rebel ...

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Some 7,000 people have died since January in fighting in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), its prime minister told a high-level meeting of the Human Rights Council in Geneva on Monday.

The Southern African regional bloc has said it will conclude its troop deployment in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), having decided on a “phased withdrawal”. Leaders from the 16 ...

The European Union will reconsider its recent critical raw materials agreement with Rwanda in response to conflict in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), High Representative Kaja ...

Under the revised terms, the DRC is supposed to receive $324 million (€312 million) annually for road infrastructure over a 20-year period. However, these payments are only guaranteed if copper ...

The DRC map. --Source: Wires Yesterday, a joint EAC-SADC Chiefs of Defence Forces Meeting was held in Dar es Salam, Tanzania, preceding the Joint Ministerial Meeting scheduled for February 28.

The statement was one of many in recent weeks coming from the United States, United Nations, the DRC and Human Rights Watch, among others, to accuse Rwanda of supporting Congo’s M23 rebels.