Fighters of the genocidal FDLR militia were given explicit orders to shoot on sight any Congolese soldier fleeing from the battlefield, it has emerged. FDLR, founded by extremist elements linked to ...

The leader of the rebels who captured two key cities in eastern Congo says international sanctions and the planned minerals ...

There have been several attempts to resolve the spiralling conflict, rooted in the fallout from Rwanda's 1994 genocide and ...

Ongoing violence and instability, including fighting by M23 rebels, has forced millions of people to flee their homes.

According to Col Magezi, UPDF deployed in Fataki weeks ago to prevent fleeing Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) rebels from ...

ITS soldiers are underpaid and underarmed. Its ranks are riddled with factions pursuing their own interests. And successive ...

CONGOLESE soldiers in a mix of fatigues and street clothes crowded into a chapel recently to stand trial for crimes including ...

Thousands have been killed and 700,000 displaced this year, after Rwandan troops and M23 rebels invaded eastern Congo.

The M23 has continued to gain ground in eastern DR Congo and last month seized the region's second-biggest city, Bukavu.

African leaders have announced the withdrawal of thousands of troops from South Africa, Tanzania and Malawi, who were sent to ...

BUKAVU, Democratic Republic of Congo - At his bar in Bukavu - a city in eastern Congo overrun by Rwandan-backed rebels last ...