A convicted war criminal based in Uganda has announced a new rebel movement intent on toppling the government in eastern ...

Belgian forces conquered Rwanda, a former German colony, in 1916 during the first world war. They got help from nearby ...

including the First Congo War from 1996 to 1997, the Second Congo War between 1998 and 2003, and the most recent ongoing conflict that began in 2022. The current conflicts are rooted in gaining ...

Because we had a first Congo war, a second Congo war, and that latter war killed an estimated six million people and is probably the deadliest single conflict around the globe since the end of ...

The Democratic Republic of Congo (DR Congo or just DRC), so-called to distinguish it from a much smaller country on the other ...

captured eastern Congo’s two largest cities and large sections of the territory in an offensive that began in January. “This is the first time a concrete statement is coming from both leaders ...

The presidents of Congo and Rwanda have met in Qatar for their first direct talks since Rwandan-backed M23 ... Chad and rebel ...

A generation of independent journalists were first silenced, killed ... Peering over the abyss of a looming third Congo War, Rwanda must decide how far it intends to reshape the geography of the ...

Since gaining independence from Belgium in 1960, the Democratic Republic of Congo has seen recurrent armed conflict, ...