Thirty years after the violence, a related border conflict escalates, with control of mineral wealth at stake.

There is a good chance that inside your mobile phone is a miniscule amount of a metal that started its journey buried in the ...

Critical minerals factor into the fight.

A conflict that has raged for decades reached a flashpoint this week when rebels backed by Rwanda marched on a key Congolese ...

Vladimir Putin grabbed much of Donbas, an eastern region of Ukraine, and pretended he had not. As a figleaf he used ...

The scene is the result of the invasion of Goma on January 27th by M23, an armed group under the control of Rwanda, Congo’s neighbour, which abuts the city. Paul Kagame, Rwanda’s president, has ...

Rwanda-backed Congolese rebels from the M23 movement have announced the capture of the major city of Goma in the eastern ...

This violent process redrew Africa’s borders, fractured ethnic, cultural ... “We have been engaged in drawing lines up maps where no white man’s foot ever trod; we have been giving away ...

Rwandan-backed M23 rebels in Democratic Republic of Congo are seeking to advance south towards Bukavu, the capital of South ...

Rebels led by the M23 group claim to have taken control of Goma, a key city in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo ... They are primarily ethnic Tutsis – nearly a million of whom ...

M23, which refers to the March 23, 2009, accord that ended a previous Tutsi-led revolt in eastern Congo, is the latest group of ethnic Tutsi-led insurgents to take up arms against Congolese forces. It ...

KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — After Rwanda-backed M23 rebels took control of the biggest city in eastern Congo this week ... Sultani Makenga, an ethnic Tutsi rebel leader sanctioned by both the ...