UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Rwandan-backed rebels now control large parts of eastern Congo and threaten to expand their offensive west into two neighboring provinces, the top U.N. official in the ...

The provinces of North Kivu, South Kivu and Ituri have seen a recent surge in hostilities, as part of M23 rebels in the Kivus stated aim to take Kinshasa. In Ituri, violence is usually attributed to ...

Rwanda-backed rebels battling Congo's army have pushed into a strategic, mineral-rich town in the east, ignoring calls for a ...

But the spreading conflict in Congo poses a more insidious problem for the global tin market. It’s not just units that are ...

The withdrawal of the SAMIDRC force from the eastern DRC has significant negative ramifications for South Africa and SADC’s standing as a player in African peacekeeping. It leaves the DRC scrambling ...

With Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Russian authorities have been increasingly targetting Central Asian migrants for military recruitment. Russian authorities often use arbitrary detention ...

Despite the risks from deadly armed groups roaming the countryside, Judith Kahindo walks alone every day to her isolated cocoa plantation in the war-torn North Kivu region of the eastern ...

Police have launched a probe after a Nazi flag was spotted strung up on power lines in a Welsh town. Officers from South Wales Police were alerted to the offensive banner above Bailey Street in ...

Southern African Development Community heads of state have announced the withdrawal of their soldiers from the conflict in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.

In recent months the M23 launched a lightning offensive that has pushed the Congolese army out much of the eastern North and South Kivu provinces, with Rwanda's help. It is the latest flare-up in a ...

In North and South Kivu provinces, M23 fighters have raided homes ... others show him wearing white pants with an embroidered Congolese flag. This suggests that someone changed Idengo's pants after he ...