South Africa often uses its diplomatic heft to position itself as defender of the "global south" on the world stage, but the ...

Critical minerals factor into the fight. By Ruth Maclean Rebels backed by Rwanda are seizing huge tracts of the Democratic Republic of Congo. Their progress has been swift and stunning.

Hired to bolster Congo's underpaid and disorganised army, the mercenaries operated high-tech military drones that had long been effectively grounded by Rwandan air defences, according to an ...

France's Foreign Ministry said that Congo's territorial integrity was "not negotiable" after Rwanda-backed M23 rebels took the eastern city of Goma. M23 rebels said they would march "all the way ...

By Elian Peltier and Justin Makangara Reporting from Dakar, Senegal, and Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo. The United States on Tuesday advised U.S. nationals to leave the Democratic ...

UN truck drivers and civilians who fled from Goma, eastern DR Congo following fighting between M23 rebels and DRC Army react at the border-post as they are received by authorities in Gisenyi ...

Democratic Republic of Congo President Felix Tshisekedi has vowed “a vigorous and coordinated response” against a rebel alliance that has besieged swathes of the nation’s mineral-rich east ...

Amid the escalation of violence, the Catholic Agency for Overseas Development (CAFOD) has scaled up humanitarian response in Goma, a city in the eastern region of the Democratic Republic of Congo ...

GOMA, Congo (AP) — Rebels backed by Rwanda captured more towns in eastern Congo on Wednesday as they moved beyond the key city of Goma in an apparent attempt to expand their control in the ...

Several towns that fell to armed groups in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) have been recaptured by government forces, according to the Congolese army. The Armed Forces of the ...

Residents of the besieged city of Goma, in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo, say they are gripped by fear as gunshots continue to ring out around their homes, days after rebel forces ...

Protesters have attacked several embassies in DR Congo's capital Kinshasa, including the French one, during demonstrations on Tuesday against the escalating conflict in the country's east.