Panic swept through eastern Congo's second largest city on Saturday as residents fled by the thousands, scrambling to escape the looming advance of Rwanda-backed rebels. Amid chaos and looting, Bukavu ...

Residents and business owners in eastern Congo’s second largest city are sitting in wait after a night of loud gunfire ...

Bishop André Perraudin, then Vicar Apostolic of Kabgayi, published a pastoral letter known as the “Lent letter” that was circulated in churches all over Rwanda to brainwash Rwandans. It is said that ...

The latest fighting is part of a major escalation of a conflict over power, identity and resources dating back to the 1990s Rwandan genocide.

(Reuters) -Rwandan-backed M23 rebels who in late January captured Goma, the biggest city in eastern Congo, have since been ...

In a statement on social media, a spokesperson for the M23 rebels said the group was in control of Kavumu airport in South Kivu province - a key strategic location for the Congolese army - and ...

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

Rwandan-backed M23 rebels who in late January captured Goma, the biggest city in eastern Congo, have since been advancing around one of Africa's great lakes, Lake Kivu, towards the second-biggest city ...

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

After bearing witness to waves of fighting throughout the 1990s and early 2000s, the eastern Congo city of Bukavu may once ...

Burundi's President Evariste Ndayishimiye warned Rwanda against attacking it as tension rises over the deadly conflict in ...