Following a brief visit to Luanda by Congolese President Félix Tshisekedi Tuesday, the Angolan presidency announced that it ...

More than a month after rebels captured Goma, the capital of DRC’s North Kivu province, humanitarian workers dispute the UN’s ...

Since January, however, the rapid conquest and occupation of a huge area of the Democratic Republic of Congo by Rwanda and ...

The March 23 Movement (M23) has set terms and conditions for direct dialogue with the government of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Early this week, Angolan President João Lourenço’s office ...

Banks are still shut, basic services such as trade are slowly restarting, and thousands displaced by the conflict are ...

Persistent governance failures, corruption, and empty promises have destabilized eastern DR Congo for decades and the government in Kinshasa has not only failed to dismantle the "more than 200 armed ...

Goma — Following fighting and evacuation orders from the Mouvement du 23 Mars/Alliance Fleuve Congo (M23/AFC) group, hundreds ...

Rwanda-backed rebels captured a key eastern Congo city just over a month ago. Residents in Goma, which was once a critical ...

Angola has acted as a mediator in the conflict in eastern Congo , which escalated in late January when the Rwanda-backed rebels advanced and took control of the strategic eastern Congo city of Goma.

The latest conflict in eastern Congo has exposed endemic weaknesses in the country’s military, long known for corruption, extortion and abuse.

Residents, meanwhile, continue to flee from Goma to other neighboring countries and towards the Congolese capital, Kinshasa, about 1,000 miles (1,600 kilometers) away. At the main border crossing ...