CONGO SOLDIERS WITHDRAW Videos verified by Reuters showed M23 fighters in fatigues parading and speaking to locals in Bukavu's Independence Square and outside the provincial governor's office.

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 ...

Andrée Blouin (1921–1986) was a central figure in the struggles for decolonization that swept Africa in the 1950s and ’60s, ...

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

This video verified by Reuters shows M23 fighters posing for photos in the provincial capital's central Independence Square ... The Democratic Republic of Congo's government confirmed rebels were in ...

WATERLOO — A Waterloo man has been sentenced to prison for allegedly having sexual contact with an 11-year-old girl. Jerry Jerome Keller, 44, pleaded to lascivious acts with a child, reduced ...

Rwandan-backed rebels have occupied a second major city in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). The Congo River Alliance, a group of rebel outfits including M23, said in a statement its ...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) reported Monday that the EU’s insufficient action regarding Rwanda’s support of the M23 rebels has exacerbated the atrocities in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). In ...

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Wednesday that U.S. President Donald Trump is living in a Russian “disinformation space” regarding his previous day’s ...

Since 1996, conflict in eastern DRC has led to approximately six million deaths. The First Congo War (1996–1997) began in the wake of the 1994 Rwandan Genocide, during which ethnic Hutu ...

Katanga seceded from the Congo for three years, 11 days after the country gained independence from Belgium in 1960. The fight to gain control over Katanga’s resources led to the US and Belgian-backed ...