With international pressure mounting on Rwanda to curb the fighting in eastern DR Congo (DRC), the conflict was set to dominate the African Union summit as it opened in Addis Ababa.

Earlier on Friday, the Congolese army confirmed that M23 fighters had taken control of Kavumu airport, north of Bukavu, and ...

Former Nigerian lawmaker, Senator Shehu Sani, has raised the alarm, alleging that some European politicians have launched ...

The United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, says there is no military solution to the conflicts in eastern Congo ...

The 55-nation body meets in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa as Africa faces devastating conflicts in the DRC and Sudan - as ...

Canadian soldiers have been temporarily relocated from a major city in eastern Congo amid an escalating conflict that the United Nations and locals say has displaced more than 110,000 people in recent ...

A recent meeting of leaders from eastern and southern Africa called for a ceasefire in eastern Congo but did not urge the M23 rebels to stop their advance.

UNICEF accused “armed men” of raping scores of children in the Democratic Republic of Congo, which has been ravaged by ...

The past three years have been turbulent for the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, a region that has experienced ...

A Congolese college student now won’t see his mother and father. An Afghan woman’s extended family remains out of reach for ...

The U.N. refugee agency voiced concern at the "rapidly deteriorating" situation in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo ...

The U.N. children’s fund on Thursday accused armed men, likely on both sides of the conflict in eastern Congo, of raping scores of children over the past weeks as rebels expand their footprint and ...