Deep in the heart of a lush green forest, an excavator is hard at work, turning over the earth in search of gold. The surrounding landscape is devastated — centuries-old trees have been uprooted, and ...

At the heart of the territory grab by Government-backed M23 militia in the Congo is Rwanda's desire to increase exports of ...

M23 rebels have attacked Goma with heavy firing, killing and injuring many while forcing countless others to flee ...

A group of Romanian citizens stranded in the North Kivu region of the Democratic Republic of Congo due to military conflict has been successfully evacuated from the country, but not before some of ...

The three peacekeepers — one from Uruguay and two from South Africa — were killed over the weekend in the fighting around ...

Kagame's comments clearly suggested that he wants South Africa to back off from DR Congo, where its military involvement ...

On January 27, M23 rebels, a group synonymous with the March 23 Movement claimed that they had taken over Goma, on the ...

The Rwandan-backed M23 group is advancing further south in DR Congo, local and humanitarian sources told AFP Thursday, after ...

The Rwanda-backed M23 armed group vowed Thursday to "continue the march of liberation" to the DR Congo capital Kinshasa, as ...

The group’s announcement came hours after President Felix Tshisekedi called for a massive military mobilisation to resist the rebellion.

Strewn with rubble from mortar and artillery fire, the eastern DR Congo city of Goma awoke on Thursday to a new abnormal -- ...

Goma, the capital of North Kivu, is both a strategic economic hub and a trade conduit to Rwanda. Rwanda frames its ...