Critical minerals factor into the fight.

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

In 2012, when M23 rebels appeared poised to seize control of a major city in eastern Congo, western countries suspended aid ...

The Southern African Development Community intervention force in the mission in the DRC is outgunned and outmanned.

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

The fall of Goma in North Kivu marks a temporary low point in eastern DRC’s decades-long turmoil.

Diplomatic sources say the bloc is facing calls to suspend its wide-ranging minerals agreement with Rwanda amid fears it is ...

A group of Romanian citizens stranded in the North Kivu region of the Democratic Republic of Congo due to military conflict has been successfully evacuated from the country, but not before some of ...

U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday described the crisis between Rwanda and Democratic Republic of Congo as a "very ...

More than 70 families newly arrived to the Quad-Cities from refugee camps lost federal aid for rent, utilities and food on Friday, according to World Relief Quad Cities.

ROGER W. FERGUSON, JR., is the Steven A. Tananbaum Distinguished Fellow for International Economics at the Council on Foreign ...

Nairobi. As an East African bloc urged an immediate ceasefire in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwandan-backed M23 rebels who seized the city of Goma extended their advance on Wednesday, and ...