Rwandan-backed M23 rebels who in late January captured Goma, the biggest city in eastern Congo, have since been advancing around one of Africa's great lakes, Lake Kivu, towards the second-biggest city ...

The past three years have been turbulent for the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, a region that has experienced ...

Indeed, on 16 October, Cameroon's mines minister Calistus Gentry Fuh wrote to his Congolese counterpart Pierre Oba informing him of "the imminent arrival of the first trucks, some of which will be ...

GOMA, Congo (AP) — Rwanda-backed rebels claim to have seized a second airport in east Congo amid fierce fighting. BERLIN (AP) — A driver drove a car into a labor union demonstration in central Munich ...

Surnames can reveal much about your family history, but they can also be a minefield of misinformation. By Paul Blake. Twenty members of the public describe what spurred them on to discover more ...