A US-brokered peace deal aims to end Congo’s long war, but with rebels absent from the talks, many doubt whether signatures alone can bring real change.

On June 27th the foreign ministers of Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo stood smiling in the Oval Office next to ...

The last time M 23 took Goma, in 2012, Western pressure on Mr Kagame led to the group’s withdrawal after 11 days. This time the militia has stayed put. Rwanda’s president, who has long aspired ...

Congo's former leader is back in the spotlight after criticizing the government. Joseph Kabila met with religious leaders in the rebel-controlled city of Goma, in his first public appearance since ...

Right, children inside the Kimumba camp in Goma, Zaire, now the Democratic Republic of Congo. Sebastião Salgado/Amazonas Images, via Contact Press Images/Peter Fetterman Gallery ...

After the genocide, he fled to Goma, Zaire (now DR Congo), and then to Kenya, before arriving in the UK in 2000.

UNITED NATIONS: Pakistan on Thursday called for "fully" implementing last month's UN Security Council resolution that demanded the withdrawal of Rwadan-backed M23 rebels from Goma and other parts ...

M23 rebels handed over captured FDLR fighters to Rwandan authorities in Goma, DR Congo. The FDLR is a DR Congo-based militia formed by remnants of the 1994 genocide perpetrators against the Tutsi.

The Zaire military, hollowed out by corruption, quickly collapsed amid the combined advance of the rebel alliance. Mobutu fled the country in May 1997, and Kabila took power.

The insurgents have been intent on showing they can restore order and govern in Goma. There have been more chaotic scenes and reports of looting and rape near the front line as M23 confronts the ...

T he crisis in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is back in the spotlight after the M23 militia, backed by eastern neighbour Rwanda, captured the mineral-rich city of Goma, which lies on the ...