Congo's former President Joseph Kabila has initiated talks with opposition politicians about the country's political future ...

European countries are stepping up military aid and economic investment in Rwanda, said to be an ally in keeping order in the ...

The regionalization of the Democratic Republic of the Congo crisis raises prospects for another multinational Congo War and ...

The latest conflict in eastern Congo has exposed endemic weaknesses in the country’s military, long known for corruption, extortion and abuse.

Islamic State-linked rebels have killed at least nine villagers in an attack in Congo’s conflict-battered east ...

The order triggered what was to become the first Congo War. Rwanda, Uganda, and Angola began backing the Alliance of Democratic Forces for the liberation of Congo under Laurent-Desire Kabila ...

Yet the war unfolding in the Democratic Republic of Congo remains an afterthought. A bloody conflict is met with condemnations but no meaningful action. This stark contrast is not just neglect ...

The mineral-rich east of the Democratic Republic of Congo has been dogged by conflict for more than ... acts that were met with international opprobrium and accusations of war crimes and human rights ...

beginning his career as aide-de-camp to now-President Paul Kagame during his insurgency in the Rwandan Civil War. He led Rwandan-backed rebel forces during the First Congo War that saw the ...

Germany’s development ministry says it will suspend new financial commitments to Rwanda over that country's alleged support of the M23 rebels in neighboring eastern Congo NAIROBI, Kenya -- Germany’s ...

committing human rights abuses and bringing Congo to the brink of civil war. The ex-president has been equally withering in private, according to sources that either spoke to Kabila directly or ...