It’s one of several attempts to end the deadly conflict in the troubled eastern DRC. Will it work where others failed?

DRC shares borders with nine African nations and, in many cases, the same ethnic communities live on both sides. This creates tensions that frequently spill over, drawing neighbouring countries ...

War has raged for years in the Democratic Republic of Congo (also known as the DRC), which is 4,000 miles away from the U.S. While it may seem remote to the United States, the impact of the latest ...

A draft law introduced in the Democratic Republic of Congo's parliament would impose tough penalties for persecution on ethnic grounds. The bill has been through several committee stages but was ...

It started off with a murder. A year later, about 3 300 people have been killed and around 1.3 million displaced. This is Kasai province, in the Democratic Republic of Congo, and if experts ...

At least 30 civilians were killed in the eastern village of Luhanga; most of those slain were Hutus, and local officials say ethnic Nande militia was behind killings ...

At least 15 people from DRC's Bantu community have been killed in an attack blamed on Pygmies in an area of the southeast that has seen repeated ethnic clashes, local sources say.

Christopher P. Davey’s research into the Banyamulenge – a sub-group of the Congolese Tutsi ethnic group who originally come from the province of South Kivu in eastern DRC – adds to debate on ...

Larson used the 1959 map of 835 "ethnic regions" of Africa produced by anthropologist George Murdock. While admitting that Murdock's map is "perhaps naïve", ... (DRC). Similar convergences ...

Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo signed a peace agreement Friday in Washington to end fighting that has killed ...

Editor’s Note (Feb. 16, 2018): The map of rainforest cover in DRC was based on data prior to South Sudan’s statehood in 2011, which is why the map shows DRC bordering Sudan.

More than 400,000 people were displaced in January alone, the United Nations says. Firefights in Goma have also killed several U.N. peacekeepers.