Mine shafts snake under the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo's mountains, but instead of the Congolese government their rich veins are making a mint for the Rwanda-backed M23.

The latest conflict in eastern Congo has exposed endemic weaknesses in the country’s military, long known for corruption, extortion and abuse.

Bunia. Ituri is just north of the provinces of North and South Kivu, which at the end of January fell under the control of the anti-government M23 armed group, which the DRC says is backed by ...

A mysterious disease with Ebola-like symptoms has emerged in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. According to the World Health Organization, the disease was first detected on January 21, and ...

Bunia, Goma, Kisangani, and Uvira. The Congolese Catholic Bishops Conference launched a diplomatic initiative, holding high-level meetings in the DRC and the region. The Dar es Salaam summit ...

The World Health Organization has confirmed multiple outbreak clusters of an unidentified illness. Hundreds have become sick and dozens have died. The World Health Organization (WHO) has confirmed ...

The South African Defence Force (SANDF) has confirmed that a group of soldiers, wounded in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have returned home and are undergoing treatment at the 1 Military ...

Some of the members were critically injured and had to be admitted to hospital for critical care. The remaining soldiers that are in the DRC are set to arrive during the course of this week. A group ...

It’s believed more than 150 women prisoners were killed in the fire which broke out. An unknown number of children also died. Show more Warning: this pod contains description of violence from ...

Languages: English. Seventy Christians were allegedly decapitated by Islamist extremists in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) just over a week ago, but the group accused of carrying out ...

Some 7,000 people have died since January in fighting in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), its prime minister told a high-level meeting of the Human Rights Council in Geneva on Monday.