Leaders from eastern and southern Africa have called for an immediate and unconditional ceasefire in eastern Congo, where ...

The advance of Rwanda-backed M23 rebels into Democratic Republic of Congo's South Kivu province threatens to trigger a humanitarian catastrophe in an area already housing thousands of displaced people ...

Editorial - The Summit on Saturday bringing together SADC and the East African Community (EAC) was immensely practical in ...

International Relations Minister Ronald Lamola has firmly dismissed calls for South Africa to withdraw its soldiers from the ...

African leaders asked defense chiefs for a road map to end the conflict in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Rwandan-backed M23 rebels who in late January captured Goma, the biggest city in eastern Congo, have since been advancing around one of Africa's great lakes, Lake Kivu, towards the second-biggest city ...

Is it too late, asked Le Pays (Ouagadougou): have we "reached the point of no return" for another catastrophic conflict in ...

Kinshasa has called for another emergency meeting of the Southern and East African regional blocs over the crisis. Meanwhile, South Africa says at least 14 of its troops in DR Congo have been ...

Last week, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC ... "In much of the east, men with guns rape and plunder with impunity." And today, Rwanda is seeking to redraw the map of Africa by grabbing ...

Fighting erupts in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo after a brief lull in the ... on a sport that remains largely unknown in East Africa.

KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — Leaders from eastern and southern Africa on Saturday ... included leaders from the East African Community bloc, of which both Rwanda and Congo are members, and those ...