The United Nations Human Rights Council today agreed by consensus to launch an urgent fact-finding mission and commission of ...

The Democratic Republic of Congo has been mired in conflict for years. As fresh fighting surges in the east, the roots of ...

On Jan. 28, the Rwanda-backed rebel group M23 captured Goma, capital city of the Democratic Republic of Congo’s mineral-rich ...

Nearly 3,000 people were killed over the last week as rebels captured a key city in one of the deadliest battles in the ...

Rwanda-backed rebels gained ground in eastern Congo on Wednesday despite the unilateral ceasefire they declared earlier this week, taking control of a town 100 kilometers (60 ...

Uganda has deployed more than 1,000 extra soldiers into east Congo in the last week near an area where the Kinshasa government is fighting M23 rebels, four diplomatic and U.N. sources said, ...

Thirty years after the violence, a related border conflict escalates, with control of mineral wealth at stake.

A deadly insurgency is sweeping the Democratic Republic of Congo, a country three times the size of Texas that is estimated ...

There is a good chance that inside your mobile phone is a miniscule amount of a metal that started its journey buried in the earth of eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, where a war is currently ...

Rwandan-backed M23 rebels say they are now in control of the key eastern Congolese city of Goma. Their fighters continue to ...

Protesters in Kinshasa, the capital of Democratic Republic of Congo, have been burning portraits of Rwanda's president and ...

Critical minerals factor into the fight.