Kinshasa says Rwanda-backed M23 rebels have killed 1,500 civilians despite a US-brokered ceasefire, as fresh clashes erupt ...

Hopes that conflict would end this year were dashed after M23 advanced on key city Uvira despite US, Qatar peace deals.

The Allied Democratic Forces, an Islamic State-linked armed group commonly called the ADF, are abducting and killing civilians with alarming frequency, and abusing women and girls as sexual slaves in ...

In eastern Democratic Republic of Congo's Maiko National Park, a few committed rangers have succeeded in protecting gorillas, elephants and other animals from the surrounding fighting. RFI spoke to ...

As fighting between the Congolese army coalition and the Rwanda-backed AFC/M23 rebels edges closer to Uvira, the strategically placed lakeside city has become the hinge on which, analysts warn, the ...

The Democratic Republic of Congo returns to the United Nations Security Council as a non-permanent member for the 2026-2027 ...

A UN rights report released Friday declared that all parties to the conflict in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have committed serious violations of international humanitarian law, ...

Like many people in DRC, Muhawe Charmante now lives in a collective displacement site in Sake due to the crisis in her country. Yves Kalwira/Oxfam In the Democratic Republic of Congo, a health ...

In eastern parts of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), conflict creates more than just human tragedy and a breakdown in governance; it also blurs the trail of the country’s most valuable ...

United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres attends the African Union (AU) Peace and Security Council meeting, on the Situation in Sudan and DR Congo, at the AU Headquarters in Addis Ababa on ...

The UN Security Council authorised the deployment of a regional force, the United Nations Force Intervention Brigade, in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo in 2013 to prevent the expansion of armed ...