The human toll is staggering. We and our partners are struggling to assess the full extent of the situation,” a United ...

The United Nations confirmed at least 900 people died in the fighting and another million were displaced, but the full scale of the human toll is still emerging. Many of those who died are women and ...

Nearly 3,000 people were killed over the last week as rebels captured a key city in one of the deadliest battles in the ...

As an uneasy calm returned to the Congolese city of Goma, following a unilateral ceasefire declared by the rebels, people began burying the dead, and agencies rushed aid to thousands of ...

For centuries, locals have told stories of mokele-mbembe, a legendary creature said to lurk in the Congo Basin. But as ...

Uganda has deployed more than 1,000 extra soldiers into east Congo in the last week near an area where the Kinshasa government is fighting M23 rebels, four diplomatic and U.N. sources said, ...

The World Health Organization chief is asking global leaders to lean on Washington to reverse President Donald Trump’s ...

A senior commander of Islamic State's Somalia wing was captured on Monday, police and state media said, two days after the IS leadership was targeted with U.S. airstrikes and as security forces ...

Large parts of Goma, in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, are now under the control of the M23 and their Rwanda ...

Authorities say at least 773 people were killed in the eastern Congo’s largest city of Goma city and its vicinity this week amid fighting with Rwanda-backed rebels.

Rwandan-backed M23 rebels in Democratic Republic of Congo are seeking to advance south towards Bukavu, the capital of South ...

Rwanda's ally Uganda, unhappy about another rebel group in DR Congo that threatens its security, has also been accused of ...