South Kivu's provincial capital Bukavu, home to some one million and bordering Rwanda, is roughly 50 kilometres (30 miles) ...

As Rwandan-backed M23 fighters continue to make significant advances in eastern DRC, having captured the cities of Goma and ...

Burundi is dealing with its biggest influx of refugees in 25 years as families flee the escalating conflict in the Democratic ...

GOMA, Congo — The Rwanda-backed rebels who captured eastern Congo’s major city of Goma have targeted relatives of fleeing Congolese soldiers, the families say, with the troops’ wives chased from ...

The DRC illustrates how millions of people in fragile, violent and conflict-affected parts of the world are at risk of ...

The M23 rebels have been moving south towards Uvira, which shares a lake border with Burundi, since they seized the ...

Bukavu, DR Congo: Traders and travellers packed their ... side fell on Sunday weeks after the fighters captured the city of Goma in the north -- giving them total control of the lake that sits ...

The fall of the city of one million people gives the M23 total control of Lake Kivu, following its capture of Goma, capital of ... Burundi's Interior Minister Martin Niteretse confirmed to AFP ...

I fled the fighting in Bweremana between the Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of Congo [FARDC] and the M23 armed group ...

Soldiers from the Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo still patrol the streets ... Unlike their conquest of Goma, the capital of North Kivu, on January 27, this time the Congolese ...