The latest conflict in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo has brought horrific violence and suffering to innocent ...

Earlier in the day, Rwanda said that a Congolese soldier had crossed ... If Rwanda wants war, “it will have war,” a spokesman for the military governor of Congo’s North Kivu province told ...

The Congo government is in an economic tight spot. Its eastern provinces which have lucrative mineral resources like gold, ...

Sum 41 once traveled to the Congo to film a documentary about the civil war, but found themselves in the middle of it.

Some soldiers who had defected claimed the RDF ... escalation of the conflict since the conclusion of the Second Congo War over two decades prior. The renewed hostilities have revived memories ...

“In this war there aren’t any good guys or bad ... With the militia gone, Congo’s soldiers had become the foe. “When I wanted to cry, one pointed a gun at my mouth. I kept quiet as all ...

It was a war that the U.N.’s ... Ireland, worried about its soldiers and this fall’s national elections, dispatched its Foreign Minister to the Congo. In the neighboring Central African ...

Soldiers who are battling rebels in the region ... Children displaced by conflict in war-torn Congo play on an artillery piece once used by rebels in Kibumba. A woman cleans the altar at a church ...

The Enough Project, a non-profit group working in DR Congo, said the two factions descended into a "full-fledged war" in 2013 and as a result, three soldiers and eight civilians died. Makenga's ...

Methods of warfare were brutal, especially those employed by Rwandan soldiers and Tutsi groups. When Mobutu fled Kinshasa, the Kabila-Kagame coalition won the First Congo War in 1997. Kabila was ...

Late Sunday, U.N. peacekeepers began processing soldiers who had ... calling the conflict a "war situation" as the government rushed to secure civilian safety. Congo's foreign minister, Thérèse ...