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

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

One of the most heart-warming stories in Nigeria last week was that seven governors, only three of them from Nigeria, met in Maiduguri to push forward with concerted efforts to salvage the Lake Chad ...

"Minnesota counties with names like Hennepin, Ramsey, Stearns, Todd, Sibley, Wright, Sherburne and Swift, for example, ...

The Rwandan-backed M23 group on Friday advanced south after seizing the biggest city in mineral-rich eastern DR Congo, in ...

Congolese troops have fought back against Rwanda-backed rebels who the U.N. says are moving fast into the South Kivu province ...

For those living in Goma, which has been captured by Rwanda-backed rebels, there is little water, little food and much ...

The M23 rebel group that is backed by Rwanda has emerged as a more potent force after being crushed during their first ...

Protesters in Kinshasa, the capital of Democratic Republic of Congo, have been burning portraits of ... Goma, which lies at ...

The Rwanda-backed armed group M23 vowed on Thursday to march on the DR Congo capital, Kinshasa, as its fighters made further ...

GOMA, Democratic Republic of Congo (Reuters) - Nearly 300 foreign mercenaries hired by the Democratic Republic of Congo ...