He took over leadership of the country in 2001 at the age of just 29, after his father and former coup leader, President ...

In an escalation of a long-running conflict rooted in the spillover of Rwanda's 1994 genocide and the struggle over Congo's vast mineral resources, Rwanda-backed M23 rebels seized Goma, eastern ...

The South African armed forces say they have begun withdrawing their peacekeeping troops from rebel-controlled eastern Congo.

The International Committee of the Red Cross says it is helping transfer hundreds of Congolese soldiers and police officers ...

In a significant development, Congolese soldiers and police officers, along with their families, are being relocated from the ...

Former Congoleseb president Joseph Kabila made a quiet entry into Goma Friday from self-imposed exile. The choice of Goma, ...

In this particular case, the ICRC was approached by several actors – notably the DRC’s ministry of defence and veterans, ...

Farmers in a breadbasket town in eastern Congo who previously fled heavy fighting are facing new challenges as they return to tend fields now under rebel control, a phenomenon playing out across the ...

South Africa’s armed forces announced Thursday they had begun pulling their peacekeepers out of eastern Congo, a region now under the sway of rebel fighters.

The emerging crisis in eastern DR Congo and especially around the city of Goma, in the province of North Kivu, has worrying implications for cholera in the region. The area around Goma has been ...

The long-awaited transfer of defeated Congolese soldiers sheltered at a UN base in M23-controlled Goma in eastern DR Congo has begun, with up to 130 troops leaving the city this morning."The first ...

Kabila has returned to the country after more than a year in a self-imposed exile to "participate in the peace efforts." ...