The UN peacekeeping force in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo has warned of the risk of ethnically motivated attacks as ...

Congolese security forces on Tuesday tried to slow the advance of Rwanda-backed M23 rebels who say they have captured Goma ...

Missiles are flying above civilians' homes as fighters fire heavy artillery in Goma's city centre, an International Committee ...

A rebel alliance claimed the capture of the biggest city in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s mineral-rich eastern region ...

France military withdrawals provide West African states with a long overdue opportunity to assert their sovereignty But there ...

Bodies are lying on the streets. Medical staff in overwhelmed hospitals are treating hundreds of wounded civilians against ...

The agency regional director says medical facilities and warehouses are being looted as fighting escalates in the African ...

An armed group backed by Rwandan troops took control of the airport in the besieged DR Congo city of Goma on Tuesday, a ...

The highly contagious Ebola virus has claimed more than 15,000 lives since it was first identified in central Africa in 1976.

Rebels led by the M23 group claim to have taken control of Goma, a key city in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo.

A group of Zimbabwe's liberation war veterans has called on President Emmerson Mnangagwa to step down. The veterans, ...