The Summit on Saturday bringing together SADC and the East African Community (EAC) was immensely practical in agreeing to effective action to fix the problems in the eastern Democratic Republic of ...

The Democratic Republic of Congo has been mired in conflict for years. As fresh fighting surges in the east, the roots of ...

Thirty years after the violence, a related border conflict escalates, with control of mineral wealth at stake.

The capture of Goma is a dramatic culmination of over three years of conflict in North Kivu province. The M23 is now ...

The M23 took Goma, capital of North Kivu province, after intense fighting this week and has ... its solidarity and unwavering ...

capital of the neighbouring province of South Kivu. Local sources told AFP late on Wednesday that Rwandan-backed fighters were advancing on a new front and had seized two districts in South Kivu. The ...

"But Rwanda supports that there be a ceasefire in the whole region (of eastern Congo) and that there be a dialogue, which we have been requesting for a long time between the DRC and M23," he said.

EFF MP Carl Niehaus said the meeting on troops in the DRC had been cancelled to shield Angie Motshekga from answering questions from MPs. Parliamentarians are up in arms after an urgent portfolio ...

Nearly 1,000 have also been wounded, according to an AFP tally of tolls from Goma's overflowing hospitals, in three days of intense fighting that have left the eastern DRC's main city on the brink ...

The security source said "more than 1,200 Congolese soldiers have surrendered and are confined" to the airport base of the UN's mission in the DRC ... rich North Kivu province around Goma has ...

An armed group backed by Rwandan troops took control of the besieged Democratic Republic of Congo city of Goma's airport on ...

Shown is the geographic distribution of reported mpox cases and deaths in countries in Africa (Panel A) and in each of the provinces of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) (Panel A, inset ...