The latest conflict in eastern Congo has exposed endemic weaknesses in the country’s military, long known for corruption, extortion and abuse. Congolese soldiers near the city of Goma ...

Since January, however, the rapid conquest and occupation of a huge area of the Democratic Republic of Congo by Rwanda and the M23 rebel group it supports has raised concerns that the principle may ...

This weekend, the group entered the gold-trading center of Bukavu in eastern Congo after government soldiers fled. By Elian Peltier and Justin Makangara Elian Peltier reported from Dakar ...

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is closely monitoring an unknown disease that has killed dozens in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the agency said in a statement on Tuesday.

The DR Congo's ongoing crisis, fueled by the M23's advances and regional rivalries, demands urgent action to prevent further escalation "I think we're now at a point where we really have to make ...

4:58 UN calls for ‘mediation,’ end of ‘crisis’ as M23 rebels rally in Congo’s Goma Rwandan-backed M23 rebels who in late January captured Goma, the biggest city in eastern Congo ...

Tshisekedi and Kabila once formed an awkward power-sharing deal following Congo's disputed 2018 election, but Tshisekedi eventually began chipping away at his predecessor's influence while ...

KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — An unknown illness first discovered in three children who ate a bat has rapidly killed more than 50 people in northwestern Congo over the past five weeks, health experts say.

Burundi denies withdrawing troops from Congo amid M23 rebel conflict U.N. accuses M23 of executing children in eastern Congo Over 10,000 Congolese refugees crossed into Burundi Burundian troops ...

Rwanda suspended development cooperation with Belgium for trying to “sabotage” its access to financing amid disagreements over its role in the conflict in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.

In January, an offensive from the Rwandan-backed M23 rebel group routed much larger armies of the United Nations and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The rebels seized Goma, the largest city ...

GOMA, Congo (AP) — Panic swept through eastern Congo’s second-largest city on Saturday as residents and soldiers fled by the thousands, scrambling to escape the looming advance of Rwanda ...