More than 150 female prisoners were raped and burned to death during a jailbreak last week when fleeing male inmates set fire ...

Goma, which fell to M23 fighters and the Rwandan military last week, has become a symbol of the conflict that has ripped ...

Fourteen South African soldiers have already died in fighting. The army has now deployed an additional 700 to 800 troops to ...

Eastern DR Congo appeared calm for a second day, after regional powers appealed for a ceasefire amid fears the fighting could ...

Appointed defence minister in June last year, Angie Motshekga has been accused of not being truthful about the dire situation ...

The external influences at play in eastern DRC are a direct result of the DRC’s failure in governance, further exacerbated by ...

Reactions in Goma remain mixed. While some residents welcome the move as a step toward peace, others express deep skepticism ...

The M23, whose top brass are mostly Congolese Tutsi, began its insurgency more than three years ago after a decade of ...

Nearly 3,000 people were killed in Goma last week, according to early estimates provided by the UN peacekeeping operation in ...

Defence Minister Angie Motshekga reveals the intense battles faced by South African troops in the DRC, detailing casualties ...

Pupils in the regional capital Bukavu were returning to school, an AFP journalist saw, after schools shuttered in the city ...

A senior U.N. official in the Democratic Republic of Congo said Wednesday that nearly 3,000 people have been killed in a ...