Five countries have won seats on the United Nations Security Council in uncontested elections. They will start serving ...

Our elders often spoke in proverbs, sharing wisdom that continues to guide us today. One such African proverb says: The battle of grasshoppers is a feast for the hawks. Looking at what is unfolding in ...

Former Congolese president Joseph Kabila, who is accused of supporting rebels, has met with top religious leaders in the rebel-controled city of Goma ...

Congo is grappling with soaring military costs and declining tax revenues due to an offensive by Rwandan-backed rebels, who ...

Congo is grappling with soaring military costs and declining tax revenues due to an offensive by Rwandan-backed rebels, who ...

Sum 41 once traveled to the Congo to film a documentary about the civil war, but found themselves in the middle of it.

Congo’s former President Joseph Kabila has accused the government of turning into a dictatorship with the backing of the ...

In 1996, Mukwege was the medical director of Lemera Hospital when it came under attack from Congolese rebels and the Rwandan army at the start of the First Congo War. He had left the hospital ...

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 ...

The fighting has raised fears of a wider regional war, as Congo's neighbours Uganda and ... week that Kinshasa and M23 planned to hold their first direct talks in Doha on April 9.

including the First Congo War from 1996 to 1997, the Second Congo War between 1998 and 2003, and the most recent ongoing conflict that began in 2022. The current conflicts are rooted in gaining ...