Residents and business owners in eastern Congo's second largest city are sitting in wait after a night of loud gunfire ...

Since the African continent was divided at the Berlin Conference of 1884-1885, the struggle for its wealth has played out on two fronts. The first was political, as European powers, starting with King ...

Panic swept through eastern Congo's second-largest city on Saturday as residents fled by the thousands, scrambling to escape the looming advance of Rwanda-backed rebels.

Advocates call for artist boycotts and public pressure on Rwanda over the resource-driven conflict in the DRC.

Rwanda rejects allegations from Congo, the United Nations, and Western powers that thousands of its troops are fighting ...

Tensions are mounting in the central African country of the Democratic Republic of the Congo as anti-government militants are ...

Rwanda celebrates its Independence Day. On that day in 1962, the Belgian flag was lowered, and the flag of the newly independent Republic of Rwanda—a tricolor of red, yellow, and green with a bold R ...

People walk past an independence square in Bukavu ... scrambling to escape the looming advance of Rwanda-backed rebels. The morning after M23 fighters entered the outskirts of Bukavu -- a city ...

(AP Photo/Janvier Barhahiga) People walk past an independence square in Bukavu ... scrambling to escape the looming advance of Rwanda-backed rebels. The morning after M23 fighters entered the ...