The Democratic Republic of Congo began voting on Sunday in a presidential election run-off intended to end decades of war, pillage and kleptocracy that have left the huge country…
A dangerous humanitarian crisis is looming in the Democratic Republic of Congo with sharply increasing unrest in the Ituri region where nine United Nations soldiers were killed…
Girls who became child soldiers in the ethnic conflict in the northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) face rejection when they come home, a United Nations official has…
The wheels of justice turn slowly in the battered Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) province of Ituri, rich in gold and diamonds but poor in the milk of human kindness in recent…
The top United Nations human rights envoy to the Democratic Republic of Congo has called for the creation of a tribunal of national and international judges to try abuses…
French soldiers deployed in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s (DRC) northeastern town of Bunia have heard distressing accounts of brutality from residents of surrounding…
A political group drawn from the ethnic Lendu majority in north-east Democratic Republic of Congo’s (DRC) Ituri region is to set up shop again in Bunia, two months after a rival…
A French-led military security force was poised late on Tuesday morning to enforce its ultimatum that the streets of the rebel-held northeast Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)…
French troops exchanged fire on Sunday with gunmen in the volatile northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) town of Bunia and were targetted by a hand grenade that failed…
The French-led international force taking shape in the volatile northeast Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) town of Bunia is still unable to stem a spate of abductions and…
More European Union peacekeepers arrived in northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) on Sunday to boost a force deployed there to protect civilians from ethnic clashes…
A small boy of five stood on Bunia’s main street gravely handing his orange plastic assault rifle to an older boy of about 15 in camouflage trousers and a fuschia pink T-shirt, a…
Three hours on the ground was enough for a delegation of Security Council ambassadors to learn about the horrors of life in Democratic Republic of Congo’s (DRC) north-eastern…
Ragged children sang and an elderly woman beamed toothlessly for the cameras as a convoy of French special forces rolled slowly through the Bunia suburb of Nyakasanza, the sun…
South Africa said on Sunday it will provide troops for the international peacekeeping force set to deploy in turbulent northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), where…
United Nations investigators have arrived in the town of Bunia, where as many as 350 bodies have died in recent ethnic clashes.
A mass grave was discovered by aid workers clearing bodies from a troubled northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo town, bringing the number of people killed in tribal fighting…
Allegations of cannibalism once again circulated in the troubled northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo, with terrified witnesses describing the mutilation and eating of the…
Two observers from the UN Monuc mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo, who had gone missing in country’s troubled Ituri province, were ”savagely killed”, a Monuc…
After a flamboyant exiting ceremony, Uganda finally began the long-awaited withdrawal of its army from eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) on April 25 — one day…
