Traders and travellers packed their belongings and paid their fares early on Tuesday for the long boat journey across eastern ...

To cross from Congo to its sister city in Rwanda here takes just minutes by land. The countries share a painful history but have little in common these days.

The fall of the city of one million people gives the M23 total control of Lake Kivu, following its capture of Goma, capital of neighbouring North Kivu province, at the end of January. Residents ...

The governor of South Kivu province confirmed on Sunday that Rwandan-backed M23 rebels had entered the centre of the provincial capital Bukavu from where he said Congolese troops had withdrawn to ...

Feb. 17 (UPI) --M23 rebels in the Democratic Republic of Congo captured the eastern city of Bukavu with the backing of Rwandan forces, the second major city in the mineral-rich Kivu region to fall ...

With the capture of Bukavu, a city of more than a million people that sits on the edge of a crystalline lake, the M23 rebels would now control the two largest trading hubs in Congo’s mineral ...

Image: M23 rebels guard outside the South Kivu province administrative office in Bukavu. Pic: AP South Kivu Governor Jean-Jacques Purusi also told the Reuters news agency that Congolese troops had ...

During and following the genocide, nearly two million Hutu refugees crossed the Congolese border, mostly settling in refugee camps in the North Kivu and South Kivu provinces. A small subset of ...

Hatua ya waasi wa M23 kuuteka mji wa Bukavu ambao ni wa pili kwa ukubwa katika eneo la mashariki mwa Jamhuri ya Kidemokrasia ya Congo kunaonekana kulemaza juhudi za kikanda na kimataifa za ...

Nearly two years after winning the tender for the Makelele gas block in Lake Kivu, US company Symbion Power has still not finalised its contract with the Congolese authorities. The project in question ...