Ongoing violence and instability, including fighting by M23 rebels, has forced millions of people to flee their homes.

As M23 rebels cause havoc in the DRC, China has taken the unusual step to speak out. But experts say it isn’t a total policy ...

Coltan linked to conflict in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo has likely entered the European Union market through ...

The African Union announced on Sunday that it had named Faure Gnassingbé, president of Togo, as new mediator in the ongoing ...

forcing hundreds of thousands of people throughout the province of North Kivu to flee. Yet another casualty has received less attention: the environment. The conflict is exacerbating deforestation ...

On Monday, the conflict flared up again, with rebels reneging on a pledge to withdraw from the strategic town of Walikale in North Kivu province. Muhindo Tafuteni, a local civil society activist ...

The Congolese army now accuses the Rwandan-backed group of reinforcing its military positions in North and South Kivu provinces. Walikale has become a strategic junction in the eastern DRC, where a ...

the capital of neighbouring North Kivu province, at the end of January. “It is evident that there is no military solution to this conflict,” Ambassador Asim Iftikhar Ahmad, permanent ...

the metal of the future is in danger of regaining its problematic conflict mineral tag of the past. Evidently, the further the M23 rebels move into the Kivu region, the risks for both market and ...

The situation is particularly dire in the conflict-affected eastern provinces ... in the eastern part of the country. In North Kivu, South Kivu, and Ituri, violence has uprooted tens of thousands ...