The political blocs of Southern and Eastern Africa have expanded the mediation team for negotiating an end to the Rwanda-backed M23 rebel offensive in eastern Congo, at a heads of state meeting on ...

Former President Uhuru Kenyatta has been appointed to a panel of eminent African leaders to mediate the escalating conflict ...

The escalating situation in Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is a source of concern for neighboring countries, President William Ruto has said.

No number of sanctions or threats of sanctions will stop, in the slightest, a people that have successfully rid themselves of the daily threat of insecurity, or grievous bodily harm, in short the ...

Burundi is seeing its largest influx of refugees in decades as tens of thousands of people flee the fighting in neighboring eastern Congo, the U.N. World Food Program said Monday. The number of ...

The leader of the rebels who captured two key cities in eastern Congo tells The Associated Press that international sanctions ...

March 24 it would step back from its mediation efforts for peace in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). According to Angolan officials, the decision comes as President João Lourenço, who also ...

The Rwanda-backed M23 armed group has taken control of the mining hub of Walikale in DR Congo, local sources said Thursday, ...

Rwanda-backed rebels battling Congo’s army have pushed into a strategic, mineral-rich town in the east, ignoring calls for a ...

Rwandan support, combined with weaknesses in DRC’s army, enabled the M23 to seize vast amounts of territory in North Kivu ...

Thousands have been killed and 700,000 displaced this year, after Rwandan troops and M23 rebels invaded eastern Congo.

Six weeks after Rwanda-backed rebels captured the eastern Congolese cities of Goma and Bukavu, the region is facing a setback ...