The Congolese chessboard remains in motion - M23 dominates, the West fumbles, and Africa, ...

The head of the UN Mission in Congo told the Security Council that M23 controls large parts of North Kivu and South Kivu “and threatens to expand into Tshopo and Maniema provinces,” which are larger a ...

An increasingly volatile situation - driven by resurgent incursions by rebel militia groups - is killing and displacing ...

The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) owes much of its global renown to its music, which reflects its cultural diversity ...

Ongoing violence and instability, including fighting by M23 rebels, has forced millions of people to flee their homes.

The leader of Rwandan-backed M23 rebels in eastern Congo said on Thursday that a call by Kinshasa and Kigali for an immediate ...

The majority of the people in eastern DRC are Tutsis who have strong ties with other Tutsi groups across the border. Tutsis ...

Many cited poverty, a lack of education and fear that another ethnic group might harm them as reasons to join an armed group. What should be done? How can this very mixed-up history of migration and ...

CAPE TOWN - President Cyril Ramaphosa says the situation for South African soldiers stationed in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) remains precarious. But he says they will only return home ...

A SAMIDRC base in eastern DR Congo. Assertions by South Africa’s defence minister that SA National Defence Force (SANDF) personnel deployed in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) will only exit ...

Fighting by Islamic State and other terrorist groups over minerals and power has led to widespread killings and rape in the DRC. Disease, child slavery and Christian persecution stalk the population.