Being able to carry on with schooling in a safe environment can curb child recruitment and empower young people for the ...

A convicted war criminal based in Uganda has announced a new rebel movement intent on toppling the government in eastern ...

Congolese authorities say at least 50 people were killed in weekend attacks in the country's conflict-hit east where government forces are fighting Rwanda-backed rebels ...

The vast country is struggling to prevent Rwanda and Uganda from seizing some of its most valuable assets.

The leader of Rwandan-backed M23 rebels in eastern Congo said on Thursday that a call by Kinshasa and Kigali for an immediate ceasefire "doesn't concern us" as his forces pushed deeper into Congolese ...

Congo and Rwanda are neighboring nations and have been involved in conflict for decades, including the First Congo War from 1996 to ... U.N. peacekeepers and foreign soldiers.

Rwanda denies backing the group and says that the violence in neighboring Congo is threatening its security. The group, which according to U.N. estimates has 6,000 to 9,000 soldiers, now controls ...

Congo has roughly 260,000 soldiers and other security forces, according to the 2025 budget law. Official monthly salaries since 2022 have averaged between $100 and $200 for all ranks, government ...

The leader of a war-torn African nation ... that recently routed Congolese soldiers, United Nations troops and private mercenaries and seized key cities in Congo’s mineral-rich east.

Rwanda-backed M23 soldiers at a mine in Rubaya in the Democratic Republic of Congo. KAMPALA, Uganda—During the 19th century’s Scramble for Africa, European countries raced to secure territory ...

The conflict, rooted in the fallout from Rwanda's 1994 genocide and competition for mineral riches, is eastern Congo's worst since a 1998-2003 war that ... group of our soldiers to provide you ...