On Sunday, Gabon's Interior Ministry announced that transitional leader Brice Clotaire Oligui Nguema won the election, securing 90.35 percent of the total votes cast. Nguema has served as Gabon's ...

Withdrawal of the terminated Southern African Development Community (SADC) mission in Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) – to start on as yet unspecified date – will be by road. This is a point from ...

Movement (M23) rebels and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) government are trading accusations following deadly clashes ...

The tragedy in the DRC demonstrates that the nation cannot rely on the current crop of defence officials and generals. They ...

Observers say it should come as no surprise that the DRC has thawed out sufficiently to green-light Uganda’s top diplomat in the war-torn country ...

How does childhood endure in the face of ceaseless terror? Can innocence survive when playgrounds are replaced with mass ...

The tragedy in the DRC demonstrates that the nation cannot rely on the current crop of defence officials and generals. They ...

Statement by Fergus Eckersley, UK Minister Counsellor, at the UN Security Council meeting on UN peacekeeping operations The UK remains a steadfast ...

The UN peacekeeping mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, MONUSCO, continues to implement its mandates amidst a still critical security situation in the restive east, according to UN Spokes ...

At least 14 bodies were found in the Walikale area of North Kivu in the DRC following the withdrawal of the M23 rebel group.

Millions of people have been repeatedly driven from first their homes and then, again, from camps, often multiple times. Families have been pushed into impossible choices just to survive, such as ...

Beijing coveted the DRC's mineral trove -- a global position of immense economic import. In 2006 and 2007, Chinese front companies began buying DRC cobalt, copper and rare earth mineral operations. In ...