The past three years have been turbulent for the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, a region that has experienced ...

Rwandan-backed M23 rebels appeared on Friday to be closing in on eastern Democratic Republic of Congo's second-largest city, ...

The U.N. refugee agency voiced concern at the "rapidly deteriorating" situation in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo ...

An offensive by M23 fighters is disrupting health services and displacing people in a region already beset by health ...

Analysis - Apart from the heavy human cost, the return of hybrid warfare to the Democratic Republic of the Congo risks stability on the continent.

including 127 sentenced to death,” explained Democratic Republic of the Congo’s Justice Minister Constant Mutamba during a press briefing January 6. These death sentences come after the ...

Patrice Lumumba became the prime minister of newly independent Congo. His close ally Andrée Blouin describes how Belgium and ...

Maria Meyers’ approach to teaching is straightforward — be kind and take care of one another. It is a lesson she aims to instill in each of her first-grade students. And it seems to be paying ...

Storyline: As senior officials from east and south African nations gathered in Tanzania on Friday for a joint summit to ...

Violence escalated when the Rwandan-backed March 23 Movement rebels seized control of Goma, a key mining city in eastern ...

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The United Nations Human Rights Council today agreed by consensus to launch an urgent fact-finding mission and commission of ...