(Photo by Al Jazeera English / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 4.0 DEED) The M23 rebel group, which seized control of large parts of North and South Kivu in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo ...

Every morning the Congolese city of Bukavu, now under the control of the Rwanda-backed M23 movement, counts its dead.

In October 2023, at least 47 people died after a boat navigating the Congo sank in Equateur. More than 20 people died in ...

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Soon after the diplomatic mess-up, President Salva Kiir of South Sudan dismissed his foreign affairs minister, Ramadan Mohamed Abdallah Goc, according to Sudans Post. The report said that although the ...

At least 50 people were killed in weekend attacks in Congo’s conflict-battered east ... Christian Kalamo, a civil society leader in the North Kivu province that includes Goma, said at least ...

Doctors Without Borders (MSF) on Friday denounced a deadly incursion on a hospital in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, which the ... capital of North Kivu province, at the beginning of ...

Since the city of Bukavu was seized by the M23, fishing on Lake Kivu has ground to a halt. Fishermen no longer go out at night for fear of being mistaken for thieves and getting lynched.

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Three Americans repatriated to the United States from Congo this week have been charged with participating in an elaborate coup attempt aimed at overthrowing the African ...

The disease has been connected to the deaths of animals at Virunga National Park in Africa's Democratic Republic of the Congo Ingrid Vasquez is a Digital News Writer at PEOPLE. She graduated from ...

It would have been the first direct talks since M23 fighters seized eastern DR Congo's two largest cities ... the capital of South Kivu province, was captured by the M23 rebels, fishing on ...