The Democratic Republic of Congo has been mired in conflict for years. As fresh fighting surges in the east, the roots of ...

Nearly three thousand people have been killed in the city of Goma in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, according to ...

The UN says at least 700 people have been killed in intense fighting in Goma ... according to the UN's refugee agency. DR ...

Fighting with M23 rebels in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo left six United Nations peacekeepers dead, UN officials said ...

No fewer than 773 people were killed in Goma last week, according to Congolese authorities, as Rwanda-backed rebels captured the largest city in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo in a major esc ...

At least 700 people have been killed and more than 2,800 injured ... The looming threat of a Third Congo War—following the two devastating conflicts of the 1990s that claimed six million ...

DRC’s government has called the takeover a “declaration of war ... Congo after the 1994 Rwandan genocide, in which as many as 1 million people, mainly of the Tutsi ethnic group, were killed ...

The Democratic Republic of the Congo is a country whose name has become synonymous with conflict, poverty and exploitation. The Central African country is the second biggest in the continent ...

According to the United Nations and the United States, M23 is directed and supported by Rwanda; the U.N. says Rwanda has sent thousands of its troops into Congo. Some 500,000 people fled their ...