The advance of M23 rebels through eastern Congo has triggered fears that Africa's Great Lakes region risks slipping back into ...

The Secretary-General of the United Nations, António Guterres, on Saturday called for dialogue between warring parties in ...

Residents and business owners in eastern Congo’s second largest city are sitting in wait after a night of loud gunfire ...

The EU said on Saturday it was "urgently" considering all options in response to a widening rebel offensive in the eastern ...

Leaders from Eastern and Southern African regional blocs last weekend urged all parties to hold direct talks, but Congolese ...

Neither Rwandan President Paul Kagame nor his Congolese counterpart Felix Tshisekedi attended Friday's AU meeting. A ...

The escalating conflict in Democratic Republic of Congo will dominate an African Union summit opening Saturday, with the DRC ...

UN chief Antonio Guterres on Saturday demanded that the Democratic Republic of Congo's "territorial integrity" be respected and a regional war avoided, at an African summit the day after ...

The country’s health minister, Samuel Roger Kamba, said that there is a shortage of medicine and surgical dressings ...

M23 fighters and Rwandan troops entered the DR Congo provincial capital of Bukavu on Friday, security and humanitarian ...

M23 fighters on Friday seized the airport serving Bukavu in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, just as African leaders ...

Congo stands on the brink of being at the centre of a devastating new regional war. Europe should act in its own self-interest to avert further humanitarian catastrophe ...