Secretary of State Marco Rubio has overseen the signing by Congo and Rwanda of a pledge to work toward a peace deal that ...

A joint statement from Congo's government and a coalition of insurgents in the country’s east including the M23 rebels says ...

One in 5 of the world’s Catholics now live in Africa, and African cardinals will be key in determining Francis’s successor at ...

Sexual violence has soared in the region: This month, the U.N.’s children’s agency said a child was reportedly raped in eastern Congo every half an hour. Some of the survivors were toddlers.

The DR Congo government and the M23 group on Wednesday ... that has seen M23 seize key cities in the conflict-stricken region. More than six truces and ceasefires have been agreed and then ...

The Associated Press was not immediately able to verify if the latest announcement had changed conditions on the ground in Congo's mineral-rich eastern region. Sign up for the Breaking News ...

Secretary of State Marco Rubio convened the Signing of a Declaration of Principles between the Government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and the Government of the Republic of ...

The Associated Press was not immediately able to verify if the latest announcement had changed conditions on the ground in Congo's mineral-rich eastern region. The decades-long conflict in eastern ...

This seems to have been the case in Congo where leaders repeatedly turn on each other and plunge the region into deadly confrontations. As a result, the effort to bring peace in the Congo region ...