One woman who was carrying her child and a few belongings told the BBC's Great Lakes service: “Bombs from clashes kept ...

The South African National Defence Force denied that a video of forces waving a white flag meant that the SANDF forces ...

A rebel alliance claimed the capture of the biggest city in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s mineral-rich eastern region ...

Surging violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo, has ignited fears of large-scale instability in one of Africa's most conflict-ridden countries. On January 27, the M23 rebel group, backed by ...

The Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs reports that hundreds of thousands of people have tried to flee the fighting since military operations escalated earlier this year ...

Past experience with the integration of armed groups raises concerns about potential competition for resources and ...

Four more South African soldiers have been killed in fighting with M23 rebels in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the ...

The death of a peace-loving soldier has left the close-knit community of Marareleng in the Sekororo area of Limpopo shell-shocked.

Congolese soldiers solemnly moved through the streets of downtown Goma - with white bands around their heads and their hands empty of guns.

Fighting across the largest city in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo and "is still very much ongoing ... it's not over ...

THE imminent takeover of Goma by the March 23 Movement (M23) rebels is a grave violation of the ceasefire, exacerbates the humanitarian and displacement crisis in the eastern Democratic Republic of ...

People who fled M23 rebels around Goma, in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, have found themselves with nowhere left ...