The political blocs of Southern and Eastern Africa have expanded the mediation team for negotiating an end to the Rwanda-backed M23 rebel offensive in eastern Congo, at a heads of state meeting on ...

The announcement follows the M23 rebels' suspension of their participation in the Luanda talks, citing European Union ...

The United Nations says Burundi is seeing its largest influx of refugees in decades ...

The leader of the rebels who captured two key cities in eastern Congo tells The Associated Press that international sanctions ...

Ongoing violence and instability, including fighting by M23 rebels, has forced millions of people to flee their homes.

There have been several attempts to resolve the spiralling conflict, rooted in the fallout from Rwanda's 1994 genocide and ...

The European Union has imposed sanctions on nine individuals and the Gasabo Gold Refinery, linked to the Congo conflict. The ...

The foreign ministers of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) and the East African Community (EAC) are expected to agree on a joint roadmap for resolving the situation in the east of the ...

Since January, the M23 rebel movement has seized Goma and Bukavu — two key cities in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) — and since set up to govern for the long term in the regions under its ...

African leaders have announced the withdrawal of thousands of troops from South Africa, Tanzania and Malawi who were sent to fight insurgents in mineral-rich eastern Congo, where M23 rebels have ...

March 8 holds painful memories for Ezekiel Batsi Batende, pastor of Swahili Baptist Church at Woodmont. On that day in 2008, ...

The humanitarian situation is deteriorating by the day. The conflict between the Rwanda-backed M23 movement and the DRC forces is intensifying, threatening to escalate into a regional ...