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 ...

The M23 rebel group have captured the city of Goma in the eastern DRC in a major escalation of a drawn-out conflict.

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

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

United Nations agencies called for an end to the violence in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) as fighting ...

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

Tens of thousands of IDPs are leaving and routine is tentatively returning, as residents hope for peace despite crisis.

President of the Democratic Republic of Congo said on Thursday that his troopers are fighting an insurgence by the ...

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