The ruling comes in a lawsuit filed by unions on behalf of workers. They say the rush to dismantle the agency cut off some ...

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

Congo has been plagued by war for nearly three decades. Millions of people have been displaced, and rape has consistently ...

Rwanda-backed M23 insurgents shot dead three boys who had picked up guns left by Congolese soldiers fleeing the rebel advance ...

Rwanda-backed rebels have captured two key cities in Congo's mineral-rich east in less than a month after a major escalation in their yearslong fighting against overstretched and weakened Congolese ...

Why rebels have seized two cities in troubled DR Congo - Here’s how we got here, and whether this could escalate further ...

Rwanda rejects allegations from Congo, the United Nations, and Western powers that it supports M23 with arms and troops. It ...

Rwanda-backed forces in the Democratic Republic of the Congo ... war in the DRC is that, alongside the battle for power, another key factor is driving the conflict—tantalum, a rare metal used ...

Rwanda has been backing the M23 rebels, giving them weapons, drones ... seen as expected and typical in Africa, and so the war in eastern Congo isn’t deemed worthy of coverage because it ...

M23 rebels fighting the Congolese army in eastern Congo are using advanced weapons and equipment similar to those used by the Israeli army and US special forces, a retired South African army ...

The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is trapped in an unrelenting cycle of ... Sexual violence is systematically used as a weapon of war, with the UN documenting over 50,000 cases of rape in the ...

Between January and July 2024 in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo the Rwandan-backed M23 armed group and the Congolese army launched explosive weapons, with wide area effects, into densely ...