Manitoba's Congolese community rallied in Winnipeg to spread awareness and stand in solidarity with the death of their co-nationals in the African country gripped by a war that has recently seen one ...

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

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

This weekend, the group entered the gold-trading center of Bukavu in eastern Congo after government soldiers fled. By Elian Peltier and Justin Makangara Elian Peltier reported from Dakar ...

GOMA, Congo — Panic swept through eastern Congo ... The rebels on Friday also claimed to have seized a second airport in the region, outside Bukavu. The AP couldn’t confirm who was in ...

BUKAVU, Congo (AP) — Rwanda-backed rebels reached the center of east Congo’s second largest city, Bukavu, on Sunday morning and took control of the South Kivu province administrative office ...

Since 1996, conflict in eastern DRC has led to approximately six million deaths. The First Congo War (1996–1997) began in the wake of the 1994 Rwandan Genocide, during which ethnic Hutu ...

Congo PM Demands 'Withdrawal of Rwandan Troops' After M23 Reach Bukavu Suburbs (Reuters) -Chaotic scenes unfolded in the eastern Congo city of Bukavu on Saturday after M23 rebels reached its ...

UN agency says children as young as 12 are also being enlisted or coerced to join the fighting by armed groups. Analysts weigh in on Rwanda’s role in the conflict in DRC, whether minerals are a ...

GOMA, Congo — Panic swept through eastern Congo ... in the town of Kavumu outside Bukavu. The AP couldn’t confirm who was in control of the strategically important airport, which Congolese ...