A weakened Congolese military fought back against Rwanda-backed rebels who the U.N. said were moving fast into the South Kivu province after seizing the region's largest city and an international ...

But is the conflict in eastern Congo a dangerous drama waiting for a spark that will rekindle the ethnic divisions of the past that eventually led to the gruesome death of millions of people?

A major offensive by Rwandan-backed M23 rebels in east Democratic Republic of Congo appeared to have stalled on Saturday ...

A major offensive by Rwandan-backed M23 rebels in east Democratic Republic of Congo appeared to have stalled on Saturday ...

The M23 rebel alliance besieged Goma and forced hundreds of local troops to surrender, a move that has been condemned by ...

The Southern African Development Community (SADC) will dispatch a team to North Kivu in the Democratic Republic of the Congo to facilitate the repatriation of deceased and injured SA National Defence ...

Kinshasa, DRC | THE INDEPENDENT | Assessments conducted by the World Health Organization (WHO), United Nations (UN), and ...

The death of South African soldiers on a Southern African Development Community (SADC) mission in the Democratic Republic of ...

The UN mission in eastern Congo was initially meant to be quickly concluded at the request of Kinshasa. However, the M23 offensive in North Kivu has led to a reassessment. Will the peacekeeping ...

M23, which refers to the March 23, 2009, accord that ended a previous Tutsi-led revolt in eastern Congo, is the latest group ...

The SADC leaders, who met for an extraordinary summit in Harare on Friday, expressed concern about the deteriorating security ...

Burundian troops are reinforcing Congo's forces, mainly in South Kivu, at the request of the Kinshasa government. Rwanda has ...