A single image captures the grim task facing those who needed to find space for the dead after a spasm of violence in Central Africa.

The U.N.’s top human rights body has condemned Rwanda’s support of rebel fighters across the border in eastern Congo and ...

On 6 February, the Alliance Fleuve Congo (AFC) – which includes the M23 rebel group backed by Rwanda – held a rally in Goma, ...

DRC and Rwanda together supply around half the world's coltan, the metallic ore that is vital in making phones and laptops.

The M23, whose top brass are mostly Congolese Tutsi, began its insurgency more than three years ago after a decade of dormancy, seizing large parts of North Kivu province before finally grabbing Goma, ...

A senior U.N. official in the Democratic Republic of Congo said Wednesday that nearly 3,000 people have been killed in a ...

Approximately six million people have died in the conflict in the eastern D.R.C. since 1996. For decades, numerous armed ...

(CNN) — Nearly 3,000 people have been killed in the city of Goma in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, according to the United Nations, after it was captured by rebels following days of fierce ...

Rwandan-backed rebels are gaining ground in eastern Congo despite the unilateral ceasefire they declared earlier this week.

Steward Muhindo is an activist with LUCHA (Lutte pour le changement), a non-violent, non-partisan civic movement in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). He spoke to CIVICUS about the conflict ...

Ombeni ran out the office and into the street, where crowds tried to dodge bullets and vehicles speeding through the city, ...

Over 2,000 bodies require burial in Goma after Rwanda-backed M23 rebels took over the Democratic of Congo city last week, ...