The war erupting in the Democratic Republic of Congo has its roots in the Rwandan genocide and the bloodiest war of the 21st ...

Pressure intensified as Tutsi militias organized against the Hutu groups and as foreign powers began taking sides ... Republic of Congo. In 1998, the Second Congo War broke out following the ...

Top United Nations officials in Africa have warned an emergency meeting of the U.N. Security Council that the offensive of ...

resemble the situation during the Second Congo War between 1998 and 2003. This resulted in millions of deaths, with neighbouring countries – especially Rwanda, Uganda and Burundi – playing a ...

Rwanda-backed rebels have reached the center of east Congo’s second-largest city, Bukavu and are present in most parts of the city after little resistance from government forces.

Residents and business owners in eastern Congo’s second largest city are sitting in wait after a night of loud gunfire marking the ongoing advance of Rwanda-backed rebels ...

Rwandan-backed M23 rebels have entered Bukavu, the second-largest city in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, seizing ...

Panic and looting are sweeping through eastern Congo’s second largest city as residents flee by the thousands to escape the ...

UN chief Antonio Guterres on Saturday demanded that the Democratic Republic of Congo ... regional war avoided, at an African summit the day after Rwandan-backed fighters seized a second DRC ...

M23 rebels have made rapid advances in the latest bout of conflict that has long-dogged the mineral-rich east.