The disparity, between the richness of the DRC in coltan, cobalt, gold, diamonds and other valuable minerals and the often-crippling poverty that besets many Congolese people, is striking.

Clashes between the rebel coalition Alliance Fleuve Congo (AFC) and Congolese forces have left more than 3,000 people dead in less than two weeks, according to DRC’s government. The AFC ...

Internally displaced people, referred to as IDPs, have been forced to flee their homes by conflict, violence, persecution or disasters, however, they remain within the borders of their own country. At ...

Fighting in Goma between the rebels and DRC’s military left more than 3,000 people dead, according to the government. Rebel spokesman Tesongo told CNN that the claimed capture of Goma and Bukavu ...

between the DRC government and the Tutsi-led National Congress for the Defence of the People (CNDP). According to the pact, the CNDP, which fought the government forces between 2006 and 2009 ...

The escalating violence in the eastern region of the DRC as the country fights a proxy war with Rwanda must have played a significant role in this decision.

Scores of children caught up in the conflict in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) have been subjected ... effects on children and families. People who were displaced by the fighting ...

Hundreds of thousands of displaced people sheltering in camps in and around the city of Goma, in Democratic Republic of Congo's North Kivu province, have been severely impacted by extreme violence ...

The ceremony will take place at Air Force Base Swartkop, in Pretoria. The soldiers were killed in a mortar attack in Goma, eastern DRC, two weeks ago.

Analysts weigh in on Rwanda’s role in the conflict in DRC, whether minerals are a factor ... affect its economies and the lives of its people. The Rwanda-backed M23 is closing on the town ...

(Photo: Reuters/Arlette Bashizi) A massive new protected area in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) – equal to the size of France – has so far failed to include Indigenous people and local ...