The FDLR, a militia linked to the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda, is embedded in the Congolese army (FARDC), especially the Presidential Guard, and is continuously being rearmed, according ...

M23 fighters, backed by Rwanda, continue to advance into eastern DR Congo. While the rebels are outnumbered by the Congolese ...

African leaders on Thursday announced the withdrawal of thousands of troops from South Africa, Tanzania and Malawi who were ...

Since January, however, the rapid conquest and occupation of a huge area of the Democratic Republic of Congo by Rwanda and ...

Angola has acted as a mediator in the conflict in eastern Congo, which escalated in late January when the Rwanda-backed ...

DAKAR, Senegal — Congo’s government and the M23 rebel group will participate in peace talks on March 18, Angola said ...

Six weeks after Rwanda-backed rebels captured the eastern Congolese cities of Goma and Bukavu, the region is facing a setback ...

At the 58th regular session of the U.N. Human Rights Council, Caritas Internationalis highlighted the widespread effects of ...

In Bukavu, a city in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, at least 11 people have been killed in vigilante attacks following the withdrawal of the army. M23 rebels are trying to impose order, ...

Rwanda-backed M23 rebels are trying to demonstrate they can restore order ... That effort has included retraining hundreds of ...

A professor of global health was in Kivu when the fighting began to rage. She recounts what she and her colleagues ...

Twelve victims of a deadly blast at a rally last week in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo were laid to rest on ...