Persistent governance failures, corruption, and empty promises have destabilized eastern DR Congo for decades and the government in Kinshasa has not only failed to dismantle the "more than 200 armed ...

More than a month after rebels captured Goma, the capital of DRC’s North Kivu province, humanitarian workers dispute the UN’s ...

(Photo courtesy of CENCO) Police surrounded Catholic and Protestant churches in Kinshasa February 16 following ... on Saturday. The city remains paralyzed, with no economic activity or schools ...

A conflict that has simmered in Democratic Republic of Congo’s eastern borderlands for years is set to erupt into a wider ...

The latest conflict in eastern Congo has exposed endemic weaknesses in the country’s military, long known for corruption, extortion and abuse.

Banks are still shut, basic services such as trade are slowly restarting, and thousands displaced by the conflict are ...

“We are accusing and condemning vigorously the criminal regime of Kinshasa, which … just implemented ... “change and development” to their city. 3-week offensive Rwandan-backed M23 rebels ...

Martin Bakole is set to be rewarded with a "big" heavyweight bout in New York City in May following his knockout defeat to Joseph Parker on Saturday. Bakole flew into Riyadh at two days' notice to ...

Butembo is about 210 kilometers (130 miles) north of Goma, the city of over 2 million people ... have vowed to march as far as Congo's capital, Kinshasa, over 1,000 miles away.

In the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), M23 rebels have captured Bukavu in the DRC, following Goma's fall, with locals surprisingly welcoming them. The DRC faces systemic corruption, military ...

A civil society source in the region told the Reuters news agency on Friday: "The city of Bukavu can no longer hold." Image: Map of DRC showing Goma, Bukavu and Kinshasa Bukavu is the provincial ...