An unknown illness first discovered in three children who ate a bat has rapidly killed more than 50 people in northwestern Congo over the past five weeks, health experts say. The interval between ...

The EAC and SADC regional blocs have previously called for a ceasefire in the war in the mineral-rich region, which Congo's ...

Congo has been plagued by war for nearly three ... History is now repeating itself. After weeks of encircling the region, spreading panic and chaos, last weekend M23 seized control of Bukavu ...

Kinshasa, DRC: An unknown illness has killed more than 50 people in the north-west of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, according to doctors on the ground and the World Health Organisation.

The rebel advance has stirred fears of a regional war that could draw in Congo's neighbours. Rwanda has said it is defending itself against the threat from a Hutu militia, which it says is ...

Congo, the U.N. and Western powers say neighbouring Rwanda is backing M23 - accusations Rwanda denies. Rwanda has said it is defending itself against the threat from a Hutu militia, which it says ...

The United Nations Security Council on Friday called on Rwanda's military to stop supporting the M23 rebel group in eastern ...

The U.S. Agency for International Development sent $1.3 billion in foreign assistance to the Democratic Republic of the Congo last year, the world’s fifth-poorest country by GDP per capita.

even if many of those minerals have been smuggled from Congo itself. With no real pressure against it, M23 continues to expand southward, now controlling both North Kivu and South Kivu provinces ...

Rwanda denies allegations that it provides arms and troops to M23, the latest in a long line of ethnic Tutsi-led rebel movements to emerge in Congo's east. It says it is defending itself against ...