South Africa often uses its diplomatic heft to position itself as defender of the "global south" on the world stage, but the ...

Democratic Republic of Congo President Felix Tshisekedi has vowed “a vigorous and coordinated response” against a rebel ...

Authorities say the governor of eastern Congo’s North Kivu province has died from injuries sustained in fighting on the front ...

A conflict that has raged for decades reached a flashpoint this week when rebels backed by Rwanda marched on a key Congolese ...

A rebel alliance claimed the capture of the biggest city in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s mineral-rich eastern region ...

Jan. 24 (UPI) --Advances being made by the M23 rebel group in the Democratic Republic of the Congo are "heightening the threat of a regional war," according to U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres.

In the Democratic Republic of Congo, thousands more people have been displaced in recent days after M23 rebels seized the key eastern town of Minova, a main supply route for Goma, the capital of ...

Molly Phee, the former Assistant Secretary of ... was involved in the conflict in the eastern region of the Democratic Republic of Congo and was accessing the mining products from there, he ...

The World Health Organization said on Thursday that over 2,000 people have been wounded by fighting in and around Congo's ...

Deep in the heart of a lush green forest, an excavator is hard at work, turning over the earth in search of gold. The surrounding landscape is devastated — centuries-old trees have been uprooted, and ...

Molly Phee, the former assistant secretary of ... creating an inevitable scramble for access. The Democratic Republic of Congo, the world's largest producer of cobalt (estimated at around 70 ...

Briefing to the Security Council on the humanitarian situation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo by Joyce Msuya, Assistant Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Deputy Emergency Relief ...