Traders and travellers packed their belongings and paid their fares early on Tuesday for the long boat journey across eastern ...

The war erupting in the Democratic Republic of Congo has its roots in the Rwandan genocide and the bloodiest war of the 21st ...

Rwanda has come under widespread international condemnation for backing the M23 militia in eastern Congo, though the country ...

Congo has been plagued by war for nearly three decades. Millions of people have been displaced, and rape has consistently been used as a weapon of war. Most estimates state that over six million ...

Creating sustainable peace in Congo requires giving justice to the victims of war crimes and preventing the illicit trade in ...

Congo stands on the brink of being at the centre of a devastating new regional war. Europe should act in its own ...

resemble the situation during the Second Congo War between 1998 and 2003. This resulted in millions of deaths, with neighbouring countries – especially Rwanda, Uganda and Burundi – playing a ...

UN chief Antonio Guterres on Saturday demanded that the Democratic Republic of Congo's "territorial integrity" be respected ...

also known as Congo-Kinshasa, has led to millions of deaths since the war began in the late 1990s. But over the last months, the Rwandan-backed M23 rebel group has expanded in the country ...

Congolese Tutsis did the same, leading to the outbreak of the First Congo War two years after the Rwandan genocide. That conflict and subsequent wars have led to some 6 million deaths in the last ...