Since gaining independence from Belgium in 1960, the Democratic Republic of Congo has seen recurrent armed conflict, ...

President Ramaphosa said that the SADC-East African community was working on securing a permanent ceasefire and getting ...

The country has endured two civil wars between 1996 and 2002 ... experts also say it remains unclear how new US military ...

The DRC seeks to offer key minerals to the U.S., but rebel forces and China largely control access to these vital rare earth ...

President Cyril Ramaphosa expressed confidence that peace may soon be achieved in the long-standing conflict in the ...

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 ...

The DRC cut ties with Rwanda after the rebel group ... and later, a spillover of the civil war and the 1994 Rwanda genocide. After the 1994 atrocities – during which Hutu extremists killed ...

We were joined by Vava Tampa, the CEO of Save the Congo, a grassroots campaign group working to end the conflicts and humanitarian crises engulfing the DRC. M23 rebels backed by Rwanda claim to ...

Less than a week after warning the African Union (AU) that South Sudan was on the brink of civil war, the senior United Nations (UN) staffer in the country repeated himself as reports of First Vice ...

[Photo, AFP] The intensifying conflict in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has provoked fears of a regional war. Several of the DRC's nine neighbouring countries, as well as South ...

Many South Sudanese worry that Juba could soon be consumed by violence again. In 2020 the two main adversaries in the civil war formed a unity government. Yet the truce between Salva Kiir, the ...

The war in eastern DRC is not about just one issue, it is a deadly mix of ethnic tensions, regional rivalries, resource exploitation, and global interference. Horrifying details of atrocities are ...