"We hope the Pope will make an appeal for peace in the Democratic Republic of Congo," write the members of ACMEJ (Association Against Evil and for the Integration of Youth) of Katogota, in the ...

"Goma, capital of the North Kivu region, two million inhabitants. An occupied city, on its knees. Stretched along the shores of Lake Kivu, caressed by the heat of the Nyiragongo volcano, its beauty ...

AFC/M23 leader Corneille Nangaa has said that their ultimate goal is to reach Kinshasa and only then would the ceasefire come into effect.

Rabat - A Moroccan peacekeeper died on May 13 in a fatal road accident in North Kivu, eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, ...

Qatar has been involved in talks to end the ongoing flare-up of violence in eastern Congo, part of a conflict that goes back decades and is rooted in the Rwandan genocide, since brokering a surprise ...

Kinshasa has also lost most of its external military allies ... security gaps and rising activity of armed groups like the Allied Democratic Forces in North Kivu and militia factions in Ituri and ...

The IMF says it had reached a staff-level agreement on the first review of Congo’s three-year economic and financial ...

Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo have signed an agreement to respect each other's sovereignty and come up with a draft peace deal by 2 May. The deal was signed by the two countries' foreign ...

Kinshasa continues to pay the salaries of teachers ... Colonel Joseph Bahati Musanga, newly appointed by M23 as governor of North Kivu province and the former finance czar of the movement, told ...

in South Kivu province, while last month, 33 people were killed in flooding in the capital, Kinshasa. DR Congo has also been subject to decades of fighting between government troops and rebels in ...