For decades, the DR Congo has been engulfed in conflict, particularly in its eastern region. The crisis has had devastating consequences for the people living there, forcing thousands to flee to ...

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.

Washington lacks the leverage to strong-arm — or sweet talk — most top-producing countries into handing over control of their ...

Wilmington City Council voted to give itself an additional 90 days to sort out how, or if, marijuana retail establishments ...

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

Rwanda rejects allegations that it supports M23, the latest in a long line of ethnic Tutsi-led rebel movements to emerge in ...

The ruling comes in a lawsuit filed by unions on behalf of workers. They say the rush to dismantle the agency cut off some staffers overseas from emergency communications systems, ...

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

The United Nations Security Council will vote on Friday to call on Rwanda's military to stop supporting the M23 rebel group ...

Since 1996, conflict in eastern DRC has led to approximately six million deaths. The First Congo War (1996–1997) began in the wake of the 1994 Rwandan Genocide, during which ethnic Hutu ...

Neighbouring Rwanda denies allegations from Congo and the United Nations that it supports the M23 with arms and troops. It says it is defending itself against Hutu militias which it accuses of ...

Congolese religious leaders are aiming to organise peace talks that would bring President Felix Tshisekedi's government, ...