A boat capsized in Lake Kivu, in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) on Thursday, with well over 200 people on board.

A tide of plastic waste flowing into a major hydroelectric dam in eastern Congo is causing regular power cuts in several ...

Congo’s government has accused the Rwanda-backed M23 rebel group of “ethnic cleansing” in the central African nation’s east.

Congolese radio journalist Yoshua Kambere Machozi was arrested by members of the rebel group M23 (23 March Movement) on 29 ...

The March 23 Movement (M23) rebels have taken control of Kamandi-Gite, a strategic town located on the west coast of Lake Edward in North Kivu province, eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).

The announcement of a new probe into crimes committed in the Democratic Republic of Congo heralds a return to the origins of ... initially focused on provinces of Ituri and North and South Kivu.

The human rights situation across the Democratic Republic of Congo remains ... groups are active in eastern Congo, and the imposition of martial law in North Kivu and Ituri provinces has ...

The largely ethnic Tutsi M23 rebel militia has seized swathes of the Democratic Republic of Congo's troubled east ... been again on the march in the North Kivu province, heading toward the ...

announced the renewal of investigations by the Office of the Prosecutor in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) to focus on crimes perpetrated by all alleged actors in the North Kivu region ...

Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwandan foreign ministers affirmed ... The countries met with the Angolan foreign minister in North Kivu provincial capital Goma, east DRC, close to the Congolese ...

The second largest country in Africa, the Democratic Republic of Congo hosts one of the world’s most complex ... Its tenth and worst Ebola outbreak — in the most unstable area of North Kivu — was ...

The economy of the Democratic Republic of the Congo - a nation endowed with vast natural resource wealth - continues to perform poorly. Systemic corruption since independence in 1960, combined ...