Control of the Ruzizi plain is strategically important because it represents a natural border between the DRC and Burundi on the one hand ... the village of Katogota was the scene of a massacre that ...

Two explosions that rocked a city in eastern DR Congo after a meeting of the Rwanda-backed M23 group Thursday have killed at ...

Democratic Republic of Congo ex-President Joseph Kabila is gradually emerging from isolation, while those close to him claim he wants to regain control of a country in the grip of “chaos”.

According to his account, he got stuck in Bukavu, the capital of DR Congo's North Kivu Province, soon after the city was engulfed in chaotic scenes of ... and South Africa-led SADC forces, against ...

A first explosion caused panic, sending spectators fleeing, before a second explosion detonated, with pools of blood visible ...

Karim Khan, has arrived in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, his office announced on Tuesday, as the nation contends with ...

He did not provide specific details, but Bunia and other nearby areas have been the scene of violent conflict between the ... conflict in a large and often lawless part of the central African nation. ...

The purpose of his trip is to announce his presence on the international scene while he waits to face a yet to be opponent in ...

The latest fighting is part of a major escalation of a conflict over power, identity and resources dating back to the 1990s Rwandan genocide.

Rwanda-backed M23 rebels have reached the heart of Bukavu, east Congo's second-largest city.The rebels have seized the South Kivu province administrative office amidst scenes of cheering residents and ...

As other soldiers unloaded their personal effects in the city, which is home to about one million people, local authorities sent staff home and shops shut, an AFP journalist on the scene said ...