USAID staffer Kenneth Bledsoe and his family had to be evacuated to safety from the Congo -- only to return home to find Elon ...

Kinshasa, Feb 16 (EFE ... some 2,500 prisoners escaped and there was widespread looting throughout the city. The armed group had been advancing since taking the Goma, the capital of the ...

Is a deadly past replaying for Congolese as M23 rebels march on Kinshasa amid presence of Rwandan and Ugandan troops?

"Near the frontlines, sexual violence and human rights abuses remain rampant, as is the looting and destruction of civilian ...

(Reuters) - Residents of eastern Congo's second-largest city on Monday surveyed the aftermath of widespread looting that accompanied ... dealt a further blow to Kinshasa's authority and escalated ...

Panic and looting are sweeping through eastern Congo ... and poses an unprecedented challenge to the central government in Kinshasa. The rebellion underway has killed at least 2,000 people ...

The UN World Food Programme (WFP) has condemned the looting of thousands of tonnes of relief supplies in the city of Bukavu in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), after Rwanda ...

KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — More than 7,000 people have died this year as Rwanda-backed M23 rebels have captured unprecedented ...

The capture of Bukavu, a commercial hub, and of the strategic airport that services the city in the nearby town of Kavumu dealt a further blow to ... that gave rise to looting and a prison break.

Amid chaos and looting, Bukavu braced for what comes next ... poses an unprecedented challenge to the central government in Kinshasa. The rebellion underway has killed at least 2,000 people ...