Panic swept through eastern Congo’s second-largest city on Saturday as residents fled by the thousands, scrambling to escape ...

Analysts weigh in on Rwanda’s role in the conflict in DRC, whether minerals are a factor and if diplomacy can succeed.

Rwanda has economic as well as security interests. Kigali denies UN evidence that it smuggles vast amounts of gold and other metals out of eastern DR Congo and sells them as its own. But access to DR ...

Nearly 3,000 people were killed over the last week as rebels captured a key city in one of the deadliest battles in the ...

There is a good chance that inside your mobile phone is a miniscule amount of a metal that started its journey buried in the ...

In a region of complex and often-shifting alliances, U.N. experts say Uganda has also backed the ethnic Tutsi-led M23, which is the latest in a string of Rwanda-backed rebellions to take up arms in ...

Thirty years after the violence, a related border conflict escalates, with control of mineral wealth at stake.

Rwanda can count on its digital army on social networks, and the DRC on a few influencers, starting with conspiracy essayist Charles Onana. But is the conflict in eastern Congo a dangerous drama ...

KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — After Rwanda-backed M23 rebels took control ... Sultani Makenga, an ethnic Tutsi rebel leader sanctioned by both the U.S. and the U.N., was nowhere to be seen in Goma ...

They are backed by around 4,000 troops from neighboring Rwanda, according to U.N. experts, far more than in 2012 when they first captured Goma for days in a conflict driven by ethnic grievances.

The rebels have been emboldened by Rwanda, which feels Congo is ignoring its interests in the region and failed to meet demands of previous peace agreements, according to Murithi Mutiga ...