The trial of 84 Congolese soldiers accused of murder, rape and other crimes against civilians in the country's conflict-battered east opened Monday.

Eastern DR Congo appeared calm for a second day Monday, after regional powers appealed for a ceasefire amid fears the ...

South Africa has sent additional troops and military equipment to Democratic Republic of Congo in recent days, political and diplomatic sources said, after 14 of its soldiers were killed in fighting ...

Leaders of the East African Community (EAC) and the South African Development Community (SADC) last week on Saturday approved a new set of measures expected to be crucial in pacifying the ...

In Tanzania, leaders of eastern and southern African regional blocs called for an “immediate and unconditional ceasefire” in eastern Congo as they met this weekend for an unprecedented joint summit.

Despite a regional summit to stop fighting in the eastern Congo, no resolution is in sight. The European Union is also trying to straddle its support for Rwanda, while tempering its forceful presence ...

Analysts say the deadly march by Rwanda-backed rebels across eastern Congo could widen into a regional conflict drawing in ...

A horrific new video shows charred bodies left inside a female prison block in the Democratic Republic of the Congo where hundreds of women were raped before being burned alive.

The National Assembly will on Monday at 14:00 hold an urgent debate on a matter of national importance relating to the South African National Defence Force (SANDF) who died in the Eastern Democratic ...

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The M23, whose top brass are mostly Congolese Tutsi, began its insurgency more than three years ago after a decade of ...

In recent months the Rwandan-backed M23 Movement has swiftly seized scores of territory in the DRC's mineral-rich east in ...