In Kitengela, a cosmopolitan township in Kajiado County, south of Kenya's capital Nairobi, Congolese have set up 14 churches where they hold colourful services, even in their local language ...

Deaths reported after army clashes with allied militias Deserting soldiers sow panic in North Kivu, army says M23 offensive has sparked fears of wider war Feb 19 (Reuters) - Volleys of gunfire ...

DAKAR, Senegal — Rwanda-backed rebels appeared to be heading toward a third major city in eastern Congo, residents said ... to take the strategic city of Uvira. The M23 is the most prominent ...

M23 is pushing into new territory, surrounding the city of Uvira, and marching both north and south. In Bukavu, Congolese soldiers retreated in long columns before M23 had even attacked the city.

Tshiluba is a language spoken in West Kasai and East Kasai, two provinces in the central western part of the Democratic Republic of Congo. This suggests that the robbery of the Bishop of Uvira in the ...

It is usually an hour's drive between the nearby Congolese city of Uvira and Burundi's main city of Bujumbura with the road humming with traders and vehicles. Now it is only one-way traffic with ...

The heart of this outbreak is in South Kivu, in the east of Congo, where children seem to be bearing the worst of the disease. Emmet Livingstone reports from the border town of Uvira. EMMET ...

Volleys of gunfire rang out in Democratic Republic of Congo's eastern border town of Uvira on Wednesday, local sources said, as clashes broke out among allied forces amid the advance of Rwanda ...

Hopes of Congo mustering a defence against the M23's advance have flagged with the recent withdrawal of allied Burundian troops, sources told Reuters on Tuesday. Burundi has denied such a pull-back.