Goma faces a cash crisis as Kinshasa shuts the local central bank; M23 rebels respond by setting up their own financial institutions.

The Southern African Development Community (SADC) has contested claims by the Alliance Fleuve Congo (AFC) rebellion that its forces in DR Congo conducted "a series of joint military operations" in ...

The Democratic Republic of the Congo has some of the largest deposits on Earth. Its President wants to sell them—and win a ...

There is no humanitarian crisis in Goma, the capital of eastern DR Congo’s North Kivu Province captured by the Alliance Fleuve Congo (AFC) rebellion in January, according to Peter Fahrenholtz, a ...

As he sat down in his rented house in an estate in Kenya's capital Nairobi, Claude Misingi was deeply lost in thoughts, ...

South African National Defence Force troops are stranded in the Democratic Republic of Congo due to the closure of Goma International Airport, raising concerns over their safety and the implications ...

In a statement issued Monday by its headquarters in Gaborone, Botswana's capital, the 16-member bloc rejected allegations ...

A new Global Witness investigation indicates that international commodities trader Traxys has bought conflict coltan smuggled from Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) to Rwanda.

A Luxembourg-based firm is profiting from the war in the Democratic Republic of Congo by trading in smuggled minerals linked to Rwandan networks, an environmental watchdog group alleges.

To the backdrop of the crisis in eastern Congo, the AU is counting on Faure Gnassingbe ... and the Wazalendo militia in the Goma region. “SAMIDRC has not participated in any joint operation as claimed ...

ShareWhile the world looks away, Paul Kagame, the Iron Man of Rwanda is digging deeper in Congo Democratic Republic, expanding not just his grip but also bent on appropriating the vast mineral ...