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

Rwandan-backed M23 rebels in Democratic Republic of Congo are seeking to advance south towards Bukavu, the capital of South ...

Critical minerals factor into the fight.

Congo is the second largest country in Africa by land area and the 11th-largest country in the world. Among its other impressive accolades, this African country is also a region that has one of ...

During the two Congo wars, from 1996-2003 the country was at the centre of what some observers call "Africa's world war", with widespread civilian suffering. The war claimed an up to six million lives ...

The scene is the result of the invasion of Goma on January 27th by M23, an armed group under the control of Rwanda, Congo’s neighbour, which abuts the city. Paul Kagame, Rwanda’s president, has ...

Burundi, whose ruling party draws heavily from the country's Hutu community, has had troops in Congo since 2021 and ... division of Thomson Reuters, is the world’s largest multimedia news ...

The Rwandan-backed M23 group on Friday advanced south after seizing the biggest city in mineral-rich eastern DR Congo, in violence ... "I am ready to die for my country," volunteer Juvenal Bahati ...

Rebels backed by Rwanda captured more towns in eastern Congo as fighters moved beyond the key city of Goma in an apparent ...

During the two Congo wars, from 1996-2003 the country was at the centre of what some observers call "Africa's world war", with widespread civilian suffering. The war claimed an up to six million ...

Congo has some of the world’s richest mineral deposits, many of them concentrated in the country’s east. The country’s natural riches have fueled repeated cycles of violence lasting almost ...

Democratic Republic of Congo's M23 rebels are moving south towards Bukavu, the capital of South Kivu province, in what appears to be an attempt to expand their area of control in the country's ...