At least half a million people have been displaced by the fighting in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo over the past two ...

Angola has acted as a mediator in the conflict in eastern Congo, which escalated in late January when the Rwanda-backed rebels advanced and took control of the strategic eastern Congo city of Goma. In ...

Nearly the entire world is breathing dirty air, as a shocking map reveals that just 17 per cent of the world's cities meet ...

For decades, the Congo Basin was largely invisible to climate science. Now, a new generation of Central African researchers ...

Six weeks after Rwanda-backed rebels captured the eastern Congolese cities of Goma and Bukavu, the region is facing a setback ...

The war in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo, on the border with Rwanda, has caused at least six million deaths in ...

The precarious situation for Ukraine follows a pause in U.S. military aid and intelligence sharing as Donald Trump puts pressure on Kyiv to agree to a ceasefire with Moscow.

The latest conflict in eastern Congo has exposed endemic weaknesses in the country’s military, long known for corruption, extortion and abuse.

A first explosion caused panic, sending spectators fleeing, before a second explosion detonated, with pools of blood visible and abandoned shoes strewn across the scene in the city of Bukavu.

President Felix Tshisekedi called the explosions a "henious terrorist act" in the eastern region where M23 fighters have captured swathes of territory in recent weeks in battles with the Congolese ...

At the main border crossing between Congo and Rwanda, the numbers of refugees trying to cross over to Rwanda continue to grow ...

In a lightning three-week offensive, the M23 took control of eastern Congo’s main city Goma and seized the second largest city, Bukavu. The region is rich in gold and coltan, a key mineral for ...