Uganda has deployed more than 1,000 extra soldiers into east Congo in the last week near an area where the Kinshasa government is fighting M23 rebels, four diplomatic and U.N. sources said, ...

Apart from that, the province’s capital city of Goma has problems with medicine supplies, access to drinking water and electricity ...

Lubumbashi is little known, but its minerals electrified the world, created atom bombs and are key to greener energy, the ...

We, the undersigned 75 Congolese, regional, and international human rights organizations, write to appeal to you to urgently work to establish, in the context of a special session of the UN Human ...

A rebel group that claimed to have captured the city of Goma in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo last week has called for an immediate humanitarian ceasefire, after fighting with the Congolese ...

As Rwanda-backed M23 rebels in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo push south towards the city of Bukavu, they are likely to have to fight their way through thousands of troops from Burundi, ramping ...

If there is one thing that the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) can rely on, it is the world’s boundless ability to look the other way. The Congolese people, subjected to unspeakable horrors for ...

RWANDA has the best economy in Africa and receives over US$1 billion international grants every year from the European Union (EU), the United Kingdom (UK) and the United States (US). But wait until ...

M23 now controls nearly all of North Kivu and the province’s vast mineral wealth—including tin (cassiterite), tantalum ...

In the Democratic Republic of Congo, widow Francine Nsengiyumva and her children are among many displaced from Goma when M23 ...

Widow Francine Nsengiyumva and her three children have little to eat and sleep on the hard ground, but like many others at ...

UNICEF is on the ground in the Democratic Republic of the Congo delivering urgently needed humanitarian assistance.