DR CONGO – Former Democratic Republic of Congo leader Joseph Kabila went on trial in absentia Friday on charges including treason over alleged support for Rwanda-backed militants, an AFP reporter at ...

The March 23 Movement (M23) rebel group announced on Friday that the release of over 700 people detained in connection with the conflict is a prerequisite for any further dialogue with the Democratic ...

The March 23 Movement (M23) rebel group announced on Friday that the release of over 700 people detained in connection with ...

Last week, the DRC government and M23 rebels signed a peace framework in Doha, aiming to end conflict in eastern Congo.

The recent truce between the Congolese government and the M23 rebel group — along with an earlier DRC-Rwanda peace deal — was expected to usher in new era of regional stability. Yet even the ...

A key sentence in the annual report reads: "Hunger and violent conflict are closely linked: without a secure food supply, peace remains difficult to achieve, and without peace, hunger can hardly be ...

Former Democratic Republic of Congo president Joseph Kabila went on trial in absentia Friday on charges including treason ...

The treason trial of the former president of the Democratic Republic of Congo, Joseph Kabila, has begun in a military court in the capital, Kinshasa.

Speaking at a press conference on July 25 in Goma, the capital of North Kivu Province, M23 representative Benjamin Mbonimpa raised concerns about the implementation of the agreement. He warned that ...

Members of the Security Council welcomed, in a press statement, the efforts of the State of Qatar in facilitating the signing ...

In yet another sign of the worsening crisis in the East of the Democratic Republic of Congo, rebels of the Cooperative for ...