Congo’s army has appeared too weak and dysfunctional to stop a militia that has swept through the eastern part of the country ...

When the Banyene family were sent back to their home in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, all that had survived the ...

Direct peace talks between AFC/M23 rebels and the Congolese government are set to start in Luanda, on March 18, Angola’s presidency announced in a statement on Wednesday, March 13. The possibility of ...

The Rwandans have fearsome weapons," said the colonel ... The night before the rebels seized Goma, east Congo's largest city, ...

Congo is also the top supplier of copper to ... to passersby from the back of a truck they had seized, along with its weapons, from the Congolese army. Reuters could not immediately verify the ...

As Rwanda-backed rebels closed in on eastern Congo's largest city, retreating army soldiers barged into Suzanne Amisi Wilonja ...

Angola has acted as a mediator in the conflict in eastern Congo, which escalated in late January when the Rwanda-backed ...

We are also aware that children were in possession of weapons." The United Nations Human ... 100 armed groups vying for control of eastern Congo’s trillions of dollars in valuable minerals ...

Congo is the largest nation in sub-Saharan Africa ... city of Bunia if “all forces” there did not surrender their weapons. Uganda has also supported M23, according to U.N. experts.