A French court has sentenced a former rebel leader and politician from the Democratic Republic of Congo to 30 years in jail after finding him guilty of complicity in crimes against humanity more than ...

A soldier of the M23 movement supervises as motorcycle taxi drivers sift through abandoned military items looking for weapons and unoxploded ammunitions at the port of Goma, on February 18, 2025. [AFP ...

A French court on Monday sentenced Roger Lumbala, a former Congolese rebel leader and politician, to 30 years in prison after finding him guilty of complicity in crimes against humanity committed ...

The US ambassador to the UN has accused Rwanda of leading Africa's Great Lakes region toward war, just over a week after a peace deal was signed in Washington to end the decades-long conflict. US ...

The United Nations suspects Roger Lumbala's militia of cannibalism and targeting ethnic pygmies - Copyright AFP/File ISAAC KASAMANI The United Nations suspects Roger ...

July 19 (UPI) --The Democratic Republic of Congo and M23 rebels backed by Rwanda signed a declaration of peace after nearly four years of fighting in Central Africa. The signing took place in Doha, ...

A war of words has broken out between the United Nations and the DR Congo government which is shunning a donor conference in Geneva to raise $1.7 billion to tackle a humanitarian crisis that Kinshasa ...

An elderly Italian priest on Tuesday appeared to downplay the alleged role of a former rebel leader on trial in France for a wave of atrocities against civilians during the Second Congo War. The ...

The DR Congo's justice minister Constant Mutamba will be questioned by a parliamentary commission on suspicion of misappropriating nearly $20 million in war reparations, the lower house's speaker said ...

This is the most anticipated clash of matchday 8 in the 2026 World Cup qualifiers. Senegal is set to take on DR Congo, and the heat is on. Next Tuesday, Senegal travels to Kinshasa to face the ...

Former Congolese rebel leader Roger Lumbala Wednesday said France's judiciary was not competent to try him as he went on trial in Paris over atrocities in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo more ...