While the deal could be a turning point in the struggle to end the conflict, many Congolese see the deal mainly as an opportunity for the US to acquire Congo's critical minerals.

Since the Rwandan genocide, the ongoing conflict in east Congo has killed 6 million people, in attacks, famines and unchecked disease outbreaks stemming from the fighting.

The foreign ministers for Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo signed a U.S.-brokered peace deal to end the ...

The decades-long conflict in eastern Congo escalated in January, when the Rwanda-backed M23 rebels advanced and seized the ...

The United Nations humanitarian chief, Tom Fletcher, visited displaced families in Shasha village in Congo’s North Kivu ...

A collapse at a coltan mine in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo's North Kivu province has killed at least 12 people, a mining source and a civil society source said on Friday.

UNICEF is on the ground in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, working with local partners to meet the urgent humanitarian ...

At the time, the Kivu Province encompassed North Kivu, South Kivu, and Maniema, with Bukavu as its capital. Originally named Costermansville Province in 1933, it was renamed Kivu Province in 1947.

Torrential rains triggered devastating floods in the Democratic Republic of Congo's Sud Kivu province, specifically impacting Kasaba village. The Kasaba river overflowed, unleashing a destructive ...

Beni's name, which was revealed April 8 on the show, comes from the name of territory in the north Kivu province that’s close to Lake Kivu. The name shares a special connection with Beni's ...