Creating sustainable peace in Congo requires giving justice to the victims of war crimes and preventing the illicit trade in ...

A rampaging rebel group has claimed the capture of another mining town in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of ...

The U.N. food agency says one of its staffers detained last month by Houthi rebels in Yemen has died in prison.

At a summit held in Tanzania, east and southern African leaders urged an "immediate and unconditional" ceasefire to armed conflict within five days in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.

Nearly 3,000 people were killed over the last week as rebels captured a key city in one of the deadliest battles in the ...

One of the most heart-warming stories in Nigeria last week was that seven governors, only three of them from Nigeria, met in Maiduguri to push forward with concerted efforts to salvage the Lake Chad ...

Thirty years after the violence, a related border conflict escalates, with control of mineral wealth at stake.

Geneva — The United Nations on Friday voiced alarm at rampant violence in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, as the M23 armed group pushed deeper into the country, warning of summary ...

Ramaphosa also insisted, in a later statement, that the presence of South African troops in DR Congo was not a "declaration of war against any country or state" - an apparent reference to Rwanda.

The United Nations is warning violence isolated to a small part of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC ... conflict could spiral into a regional war akin to those of 1996-1997 and 1998-2003 ...

and allowed Hutu militias to regroup in eastern Congo, prompting Rwanda and Uganda to invade the region. Angola, Namibia and Zimbabwe fought alongside Congolese troops in a five-year regional war ...