The Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda have signed a peace deal facilitated by the U.S. to help end the decades-long ...

What we know about claims 70 Christians were beheaded in Democratic Republic of Congo MONUSCO, the U.N. peacekeeping force in the DRC, said the reported killings were under investigation but ...

The agreement marks a breakthrough in talks and intends to attract billions of dollars of Western investment to a region rich ...

Learn about sources of continued violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo and how the United Nations, African Union, and neighboring countries are struggling to curtail it.

Since 1996, conflict in eastern DRC has led to approximately six million deaths. The First Congo War (1996–1997) began in the wake of the 1994 Rwandan Genocide, during which ethnic Hutu ...