Direct peace talks between the Democratic Republic of Congo and M23 rebels will begin in the Angolan capital on March 18, ...

For decades, the Congo Basin was largely invisible to climate science. Now, a new generation of Central African researchers ...

Six weeks after Rwanda-backed rebels captured the eastern Congolese cities of Goma and Bukavu, the region is facing a setback ...

The war in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo, on the border with Rwanda, has caused at least six million deaths in ...

Rwanda appears to be betting on its reputation as a key security partner and sports destination to minimize any backlash to its involvement in the war.

Congo, which is rich in cobalt, lithium and uranium, has been fighting Rwanda-backed M23 rebels that seized swathes of its ...

Fighting by Islamic State and other terrorist groups over minerals and power has led to widespread killings and rape in the DRC. Disease, child slavery and Christian persecution stalk the population.

On his first day in office, President Donald Trump signed an executive order changing the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the ...

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, today issued a new position on returns to the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), advising that Congolese nationals fleeing the conflict, as well as those ...

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

The World Health Organization's head of emergencies, Mike Ryan, said Friday that more than 60 unexplained deaths in the northern Democratic Republic of Congo were likely due to "some kind of ...

A mystery illness that has caused dozens of deaths in the Democratic Republic of Congo appears to from a "poisoning of a water source," according to the World Health Organization. The WHO's head ...