Families of the victims of last week's bombings at two camps of displaced people in eastern Congo, which killed at least ...

For decades, Belgium failed to return the remains of hundreds of people taken by force from former colonies. A draft law ...

The Democratic Republic of the Congo is the stage of an ongoing armed conflict between state forces and the M23 guerrilla army.

Doors and locks smashed, power equipment stolen, no fuel, no food, water or electricity ... welcome to what's left of a UN ...

In 1998, the Second Congo War broke out following the deterioration of relations between Kigali and Kinshasa. In an attempt to diminish the impression that Rwanda held undue influence over the ...

However, the violence in the region was by no means ended when the Rwandan genocide came to an end. In the years that followed, the RPF was a key belligerent in the First and Second Congo War ...

The violence has been especially intense since the end of 2021 ... Sudan collapsed into civil war and Israel commenced a ...

UN peacekeepers have ceased operations in DR Congo's restive South ... which considers them ineffective. A second phase of a three-stage UN departure plan concerns war-torn North Kivu, where ...

a 99-mile-long body of water in the upper River Nile system over which Congo's Blue Mountains loom. Serious exploration began ...

These events later became known as the First Congo War. The Second Congo war began two years later when in August 1998, Kabila ordered the remaining Rwandan and Ugandan troops to withdraw. Rwanda and ...

By the end of April more than half of the 115 policemen ... The mission was set up in 1999 in a bid to halt the second DR Congo war, which saw local forces backed by Angola, Namibia and Zimbabwe ...

These events later became known as the First Congo War. The Second Congo war began two years later when in August 1998, Kabila ordered the remaining Rwandan and Ugandan troops to withdraw.