Thousands have been killed and 700,000 displaced this year, after Rwandan troops and M23 rebels invaded eastern Congo.

The meeting in Qatar's capital was the first time the leaders of Rwanda and DR Congo talked directly after several months of ...

The meeting between Congo’s President Felix Tshisekedi and Rwanda’s President Paul Kagame to discuss the insurgency was mediated by Qatar, the three governments said in a statement. The state-run ...

The M23 has continued to gain ground in eastern DR Congo and last month seized the region's second-biggest city, Bukavu.

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

Experts say it is unlikely that they will march across the country, but their gains have triggered fears of a coup in the capital. The conflict in eastern Congo has brewed for years. This is ...

Nearly 80,000 fleeing the conflict ravaging the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo since January have found refuge in neighbouring countries, the United Nations refugee agency said yesterday.

The rebels are supported by about 4,000 troops from neighboring Rwanda, according to U.N. experts, and at times have vowed to march as far as Congo’s capital, Kinshasa, over 1,000 miles away.

Map locates Goma, Bukavu, Uvira, Bunia and Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of Congo. On paper ... In Kinshasa, the capital, people are worried about his ability to control his security ...

The M23 took control of South Kivu provincial capital Bukavu over a week ago, after capturing Goma, the capital of North Kivu and the main city in the country's east, late last month. The seizure ...

KINSHASA, July 27 (Xinhua) -- At least seven people were killed in a stampede during a concert held on Saturday in Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), reported the ...