As M23 rebels take Bukavu and the conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo worsens, Michel Tissier, peace advocate ...

Mine shafts snake under the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo's mountains, but instead of the Congolese government their ...

Angola has acted as a mediator in the conflict in eastern Congo, which escalated in late January when the Rwanda-backed rebels advanced and took control of the strategic eastern Congo city of Goma. In ...

In the remote village of Chegera, near Bukavu, at least 26 women were raped as Congolese troops and their allies retreated in ...

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Fighting by Islamic State and other terrorist groups over minerals and power has led to widespread killings and rape in the DRC. Disease, child slavery and Christian persecution stalk the population.

Jordan Bita preferred to risk his life swimming across a roaring river than stay at home and be conscripted by rebels in ...

According to hospital sources, the death toll from "the terrorist attack" at a rebel rally in eastern DR Congo's ... including women and children, according to a top AFC/M23 leader.

The M23 rebels, which the UN said were supported by an estimated 4,000 Rwandan troops, are the most powerful of more than 100 armed groups vying for control of Congo's resource-rich east.

ALSO READ: Bukavu business community urges M23 to quickly secure city, halt criminal activity The weary group, including women with very ... and DR Congo, to the west. ALSO READ: Pastor recounts ...

The fall of the city of one million people gives the M23 total control of Lake Kivu ... took refuge in their homes for safety. Men, women and children, some of whom picked up weapons left by ...

The discovery of 70 bodies in an abandoned Church reveals the severity of the violence afflicting the east of the Democratic ...