Hopes that conflict would end this year were dashed after M23 advanced on key city Uvira despite US, Qatar peace deals.

On 4 December, the presidents of Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) signed the Washington Accords for ...

The teenager waited and listened, her heart pounding as gunfire crackled in the forest in eastern Congo where M23 rebels had ...

On December 15, a French court sentenced 67-year-old former Congolese rebel leader Roger Lumbala to 30 years in prison. This comes as armed violence is intensifying in the eastern Democratic Republic ...

A shell exploded nearby as the insurgents battled Congolese troops and a government-allied militia in January, about 25 kilometres northwest of the city of Goma. In the chaos, Salima, then 17, and ...

Roger Lumbala, 67, is on trial in Paris, accused of complicity in crimes against humanity during the Second Congo War ...

French prosecutors on Friday sought a maximum sentence of life in prison for a former rebel leader accused of being one of ...

A just-signed agreement aimed at ending the conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo looked to be unravelling Monday with ...

The President explains that although many people have asked him to withdraw the soldiers, doing so would open the door for invaders from neighbouring countries, where instability remains high, ...

U.S. President Trump says he has ended the long war in eastern Congo. But despite signing peace deals, Congo’s M23 rebels have tightened their grip on power by enlisting more soldiers, building a ...