The troops were part of a Southern African Development Community (SADC) mission deployed in 2023 to help the Kinshasa government quell unrest in the mineral-rich eastern region.

President Paul Kagame and European Council President António Costa held discussions on Wednesday, February 5, focusing on the ongoing crisis in DR Congo and Rwanda-EU cooperation.Through his post on ...

Bounena Sidi Mohamed, deputy director of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), said at least ...

Malawi's President Lazarus Chakwera has ordered the military to begin preparing to withdraw from their peacekeeping mission ...

Following a decision by Donald Trump to suspend the United States Agency for International Development, foreign assistance is slowing the vital work needed to help those in Congo, the United Nations s ...

Nearly three thousand people have been killed in the city of Goma in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, according to ...

The United Nations has 14,000 of its blue helmet soldiers in the Kivu region, and this past December, 14 blue helmets were killed. The countries that make up the Southern African Development Community ...

In Central Africa lies a country, almost a subcontinent, roughly the size of all of Western Europe—one of the richest countries in terms of resources, yet one of the poorest in terms of resource gain ...

According to the United Nations, hundreds of women were raped and then burned alive during a jailbreak in Goma, DR Congo.

The United Nations Human Rights Council should create an independent mandate to investigate abuses by all parties to the ...

The M23 armed group and allied Rwandan forces launched a new offensive on Wednesday in the eastern Democratic Republic of ...

Hundreds of Congolese women were raped and burnt alive after Rwandan-backed militants raided a prison. The female inmates ...