Russia castigated Syria's new leaders in a closed United Nations briefing this week, two sources briefed on the meeting told ...

M23 fighters, backed by Rwanda, continue to advance in eastern DR Congo. "One of the main factors explaining the weakness of ...

The Rwanda-backed M23 armed group cautiously welcomed Thursday the prospect of direct negotiations with the Congolese government to end the conflict in the volatile eastern Democratic Republic of ...

Congolese authorities are hoping to conclude an agreement with the Trump administration on the country's mining resources in ...

Is a deadly past replaying for Congolese as M23 rebels march on Kinshasa amid presence of Rwandan and Ugandan troops?

ITS soldiers are underpaid and underarmed. Its ranks are riddled with factions pursuing their own interests. And successive ...

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More than a month after rebels captured Goma, the capital of DRC’s North Kivu province, humanitarian workers dispute the UN’s ...

Since January, however, the rapid conquest and occupation of a huge area of the Democratic Republic of Congo by Rwanda and ...

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

A professor of global health was in Kivu when the fighting began to rage. She recounts what she and her colleagues ...

Congolese soldiers face trial for rape and murder as the army struggles against M23 rebels. Testimonies reveal issues like ...