Critical minerals factor into the fight.

The former US administration has said the government of Rwandan President Paul Kagame rebuffed a proposed peace incentive for ...

An African country that's the 11th largest in the world also shares its border with a staggering nine other countries.

The M23 group is one of about 100 armed factions vying for a foothold in eastern Congo, where a decades-long conflict has ...

A study by WHO-AFRO evaluating the five-year progress of the implementation of the regional cholera prevention and control ...

Conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) risks spilling over into a regional war, it is feared, as Rwanda-backed rebels claim to have captured the key city of Goma. The leader of a rebel ...

The Southern African Development Community (SADC) will hold an extraordinary summit in Harare, Zimbabwe's capital, on ...

The conflict comes amid rising global tensions after Donald Trump’s election, especially between Washington and Beijing, over ...

The mineral-rich east of the Democratic Republic of Congo has been dogged by conflict for more than 30 years, since the 1994 Rwandan genocide.Numerous armed groups have competed with the central ...

The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has severed diplomatic ties with Rwanda, accusing it of fuelling the rebellion. At least 13 soldiers serving with peacekeeping forces in the DRC have been ...

The Democratic Republic of Congo, the world's largest producer of cobalt (estimated at around 70 % of global production), is at the center of this competition, as is Zambia, which is also affected.