The Congolese government has supported the Wazalendo (“patriots” in Swahili) to fight against the abusive M23, although the extent of the army’s ...

Tropical forests in eastern Congo that fell into rebel hands this year have seen a spike in illegal logging to produce ...

M23 rebels seized Sake after intense fighting, forcing nearly all 130,000 residents to flee their homes and farms.

In Goma, a city in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), where war has redrawn borders and scattered families, ...

I want to see peace. I want to see happiness. I want to see health. They have incredible land with incredible value. A lot of ...

"We hope the Pope will make an appeal for peace in the Democratic Republic of Congo," write the members of ACMEJ (Association Against Evil and for the Integration of Youth) of Katogota, in the ...

In our previous article, “The 67-year struggle for congolese Tutsi citizenship must end,” we explored how the Kinyarwanda-speaking community’s electoral victories in Eastern DR Congo fueled resentment ...

GOMA: Cash has become so scarce in Goma, the eastern Congolese city seized by anti-government fighters in January, that some ...

The M23 rebel group, backed by Rwanda, has taken control of Bukavu in eastern DR Congo, where law and order have collapsed.

Once a quiet transit hub just 27 kilometers west of Goma, the capital of North Kivu Province, Sake has become both a symbol of eastern Congo's unraveling and a strategic foothold in the resurgence of ...

A coalition of Congolese army-backed militias known as the "Wazalendo" have recently committed widespread abuses against ...

In the war-scarred hills of the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the town of Sake bears the jagged outlines of ...