U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio called for a urgent cease-fire in the conflict in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo ...

The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, condemned the serious violations of human rights, the ...

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

Protesters have attacked missions in the capital of the African country as anger grows about the advance of the M23 rebel ...

Advances being made by the M23 rebel group in the Democratic Republic of Congo are "heightening the threat of a regional war, ...

As an East African bloc urged an immediate ceasefire in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwandan-backed M23 rebels who ...

A conflict that has raged for decades reached a flashpoint this week when rebels backed by Rwanda marched on a key Congolese ...

Many blame the United States, France and other allies for allowing neighboring Rwanda to fuel a conflict in the country’s ...

Rwanda-backed rebels have claimed they captured eastern Congo’s largest city, Goma, as the United Nations describe a “mass ...

Residents of the besieged city of Goma, in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo, say they are gripped by fear as ...

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

An insurgency led by the M23 rebels in the east Democratic Republic of Congo has escalated and they have taken control of the ...