More than 150 female prisoners were raped and burned to death during a jailbreak last week when fleeing male inmates set fire ...

Fourteen South African soldiers have already died in fighting. The army has now deployed an additional 700 to 800 troops to ...

Goma, which fell to M23 fighters and the Rwandan military last week, has become a symbol of the conflict that has ripped ...

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

The external influences at play in eastern DRC are a direct result of the DRC’s failure in governance, further exacerbated by ...

The M23 rebel group have captured the city of Goma in the eastern DRC in a major escalation of a drawn-out conflict.

Appointed defence minister in June last year, Angie Motshekga has been accused of not being truthful about the dire situation ...

Reactions in Goma remain mixed. While some residents welcome the move as a step toward peace, others express deep skepticism ...

Nearly 3,000 people were killed in Goma last week, according to early estimates provided by the UN peacekeeping operation in ...

A senior U.N. official in the Democratic Republic of Congo said Wednesday that nearly 3,000 people have been killed in a ...

Pupils in the regional capital Bukavu were returning to school, an AFP journalist saw, after schools shuttered in the city ...

President Ramaphosa has reaffirmed South Africa’s commitment to a diplomatic solution for the eastern DRC, following a ...