The Democratic Republic of Congo has been mired in conflict for years. As fresh fighting surges in the east, the roots of today’s violence can be traced back to old problems.

A South African defence expert, Helmoed Heitman, says the Southern African Development Community mission in DR Congo (SAMIDRC) is a complete failure and the bloc should negotiate its withdrawal.

According to local sources, the fighting escalated on Thursday and continued into the early hours of Friday, with new clashes ...

Flags are flying half-mast in South Africa as bodies of deceased soldiers are being repatriated, but questions about the ...

The M23, whose top brass are mostly Congolese Tutsi, began its insurgency more than three years ago after a decade of dormancy, seizing large parts of North Kivu province before finally grabbing Goma, ...

The special session of the Human Rights Council was called by the Democratic Republic of Congo with the support of dozens of ...

Congo jailbreak footage shows prisoners fleeing as smoke billowed in the background, with heavy gunfire ringing out.

The Luanda Process has not been able to bring tangible results either. The reasons for this failure include bad faith from ...

PRETORIA, February 6. /TASS/. Rebels from the M23 movement, supported by the Rwandan army, seized the town of Ihusi in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo near Bukavu, the administrative ...

STORY: Walking through the halls of a hospital in Democratic Republic of Congo's Goma, Dr. Jules Kafitiye points out the ...

Rwandan-backed armed group M23 seized one of the world’s most productive coltan concessions, in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. Since then, a UN report estimates that 120 tonnes of the precious ...

Nearly three thousand people have been killed in the city of Goma in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, according to ...