A dramatic escalation in the tactics by a Baloch separatist group came with the hijacking of a passenger train on Tuesday.

And so Sake, which sits on the Congolese bank of Lake Kivu across from Rwanda, filled up again. "It's better to be at home than in the camps," said Tumani Feresi, one of the family's elder brothers.

One Lake, Two Worlds: The Rwandan shore of Lake Kivu offers leisure. Across the border in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the lake was recently the site of devastation after a rebel offensive.

Army's legacy of division Even the late former president Mobutu Sese Seko "did not want the army to become too strong, for fear of a coup d'état, and played generals off against each other ...

M23 on Thursday shared pictures and videos of their fighters addressing locals on the largest Island in the middle of Lake Kivu. Rebels claim that the capture of the island happened without fighting ...

They got there on the boats, without fighting. Idjwi territory (South Kivu) is located in the middle of Lake Kivu, border with Rwanda. Idjwi is the only Congolese entity that had never known war. When ...

Uganda's role in eastern DR Congo has largely gone under the radar during recent violence but its complex approach aims to ...