Congolese President Felix Tshisekedi has intensified his accusations against Rwanda, issuing a scathing critique against ...

Congo has been plagued by war for nearly three decades. Millions of people have been displaced, and rape has consistently ...

Claims of Burundi withdrawing troops from eastern Congo amid M23 rebel advances create tension, with Burundian military denying such moves. The UN accuses M23 of executing children, worsening civilian ...

Since Goma fell, I’ve lived in fear. I don’t dare leave my house.” These are the words of Justin Shamutwa Masumbuko, general ...

When night falls in the Batwa village of Lukwangulo, only the local chief’s house is illuminated. In this village in the ...

M23 rebels have seized Bukavu, the capital of South Kivu, further expanding their control in the eastern Democratic Republic ...

Andrée Blouin (1921–1986) was a central figure in the struggles for decolonization that swept Africa in the 1950s and ’60s, ...

Yesterday, Rwandan-backed M23 rebels announced the capture of the city of Bukavu, in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Their arrival into the second largest city in eastern Congo follows the fall of ...

The conflict in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has become a geopolitical powder keg, with the potential to engulf the entire Great Lakes region. What seems like a localised war for ...

Thirty leaders from the continent met in Ethiopia to discuss a project to give 300 million people access to electricity ...

Rebel forces have been seen in the center of Bukavu, the second largest city in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC ...