Movement (M23) fighters seized an airport serving Bukavu in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo a day before the African Union’s (AU) February 2025 summit began in Ethiopia. A post shared on X ...

Since January, however, the rapid conquest and occupation of a huge area of the Democratic Republic of Congo by Rwanda and the M23 rebel group it supports has raised concerns that the principle may ...

The latest conflict in eastern Congo has exposed endemic weaknesses in the country’s military, long known for corruption, extortion and abuse. Congolese soldiers near the city of Goma ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) has sounded the alarm over a new, unidentified illness that has emerged in the northwestern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). The country, already ...

This weekend, the group entered the gold-trading center of Bukavu in eastern Congo after government soldiers fled. By Elian Peltier and Justin Makangara Elian Peltier reported from Dakar ...

Tshisekedi and Kabila once formed an awkward power-sharing deal following Congo's disputed 2018 election, but Tshisekedi eventually began chipping away at his predecessor's influence while ...

Rebels say Congo soldiers 'abandoned' population Army exit gave rise to crime, prison break Rapid offensive has fanned fears of a wider war Congo accuses Rwanda of seizing minerals Feb 17 (Reuters ...

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is closely monitoring an unknown disease that has killed dozens in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the agency said in a statement on Tuesday.

GOMA, Congo (AP) — Panic swept through eastern Congo’s second-largest city on Saturday as residents and soldiers fled by the thousands, scrambling to escape the looming advance of Rwanda ...

An unknown illness first discovered in three children who ate a bat has rapidly killed more than 50 people in northwestern Congo over the past five weeks, health experts say. The interval between ...

4:58 UN calls for ‘mediation,’ end of ‘crisis’ as M23 rebels rally in Congo’s Goma Rwandan-backed M23 rebels who in late January captured Goma, the biggest city in eastern Congo ...

KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — An unknown illness first discovered in three children who ate a bat has rapidly killed more than 50 people in northwestern Congo over the past five weeks, health experts say.