The latest conflict in eastern Congo has exposed endemic weaknesses in the country’s military, long known for corruption, extortion and abuse.

In February 2025, the UN Human Rights Council adopted a resolution agreeing to establish a fact-finding mission on the ...

Authorities investigating the deaths of at least 60 people in northwestern Congo suspect the water source in one of the areas ...

The World Health Organization speculated that a mass poisoning event was behind the deaths of 60 people. But African experts ...

Democratic Republic of Congo's government and Rwandan-backed M23 rebels traded blame on Friday for explosions at a rally in ...

Rwanda-backed rebels captured a key eastern Congo city a month ago Friday. Residents in Goma say they are struggling on ...

Since 1996, conflict in eastern DRC has led to approximately six million deaths. The First Congo War (1996–1997) began in the wake of the 1994 Rwandan Genocide, during which ethnic Hutu ...

also known as Congo-Kinshasa, has led to millions of deaths since the war began in the late 1990s. But over the last months, the Rwandan-backed M23 rebel group has expanded in the country ...

UN chief Antonio Guterres on Saturday demanded the Democratic Republic of Congo's "territorial integrity" be respected and a regional war avoided, at an African summit the day after Rwandan-backed ...

The order triggered what was to become the first Congo War. Rwanda, Uganda, and Angola began backing the Alliance of Democratic Forces for the liberation of Congo under Laurent-Desire Kabila ...