Crowds gathered at the houses lining Congress Street throughout Friday to celebrate Congo Fest, the first fest of the weekend ...

Twenty-eight million people face acute hunger in the Democratic Republic of Congo, a record for the country, driven by an ...

Fierce fighting in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo has displaced more than half a million people, the country's foreign minister told an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council.More ...

Rwanda-backed M23 rebels battle pro-government fighters in North Kivu and South Kivu province after truce talks.

“We confirm that the town of Walikale, the capital of the Walikale territory, has been liberated by our forces in order to protect the population and their property," Congo River Alliance said in a ...

House subcommittee hears that the cobalt-rich African nation’s population is suffering as ruling elites and their partners profit.

M23's swift advance since January has seized eastern Congo's two largest cities, resulted in thousands of deaths and forced hundreds of thousands more from their homes. Southern and East Africa ...

Members of the Synergie des Wazalendu of the Front Nord and the Volontaires de la Resistance Populaire attend a briefing in the hills above the town of Butembo, North Kivu, in the east of the ...

sources from Congo’s presidency, its ministry of mines, and from Washington told Reuters. A Congolese delegation had been scheduled to meet with the House Foreign Affairs Committee on March 6 ...

When the Banyene family were sent back to their home in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, all that had survived the fighting was a crumbling wall and sagging metal roof.