The First Congo War, also known as Africa’s First World War, took place from October 1996 till May 1997. It involved multiple ...

The war erupting in the Democratic Republic of Congo has its roots in the Rwandan genocide and the bloodiest war of the 21st ...

Top United Nations officials in Africa have warned an emergency meeting of the U.N. Security Council that the offensive of ...

So how did DR Congo - the largest country in sub-Saharan Africa - get here? The origins of this complex conflict can be ...

The mineral-rich east of the Democratic Republic of Congo has ... in neighbouring countries to devastating effect – notoriously in the 1990s when two huge conflicts, dubbed Africa's World ...

The Democratic Republic of Congo has been mired in conflict for years. As fresh fighting surges in the east, the roots of ...

This weekend, the group entered the gold-trading center of Bukavu in eastern Congo ... of Africa’s richest mining regions. “It is important that we can work hand in hand for our country ...

which includes countries ranging from Congo to South Africa. Rwandan President Paul Kagame attended the summit along with his South African counterpart, Cyril Ramaphosa, who has angered the ...

Flags are flying half-mast in South Africa as bodies of deceased soldiers are being repatriated, but questions about the ...