Hopes that conflict would end this year were dashed after M23 advanced on key city Uvira despite US, Qatar peace deals.

The Allied Democratic Forces, an Islamic State-linked armed group commonly called the ADF, are abducting and killing ...

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Rwanda-backed M23 rebels have said they would withdraw from the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo town of Uvira at the ...

Along the road linking Bukavu to Uvira in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the marks of war remain stark and unmistakable following a series of offensives by the March 23 Movement ...

In a scathing critique, Archbishop Fulgence Muteba Mugalu of Lubumbashi – who is also the president of the bishops’ ...

The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has been ravaged by what is aptly described as a “forgotten war” spanning more than ...

In eastern parts of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), conflict creates more than just human tragedy and a breakdown in governance; it also blurs the trail of the country’s most valuable ...

In the Congo, sexual violence is not incidental – it is a weapon of war - COMMENT: Sexual violence has surged against women and children in the Congo in 2025, with no sign of retribution against their ...

The UN Security Council authorised the deployment of a regional force, the United Nations Force Intervention Brigade, in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo in 2013 to prevent the expansion of armed ...