The foreign ministers for Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo signed a U.S.-brokered peace deal to end the ...

Refugees, exiles, and opposition groups hold the key to lasting peace and regional stability.

Fighting for control of the Democratic Republic of Congo's mineral wealth has killed millions. Trump wants to end it, and ...

Cobalt prices are surging after the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), the world’s largest producer, extended its export ban ...

Several months later, in June, the Rwandan president, Paul Kagame, said his country was “ready” to go to war after the DRC government made allegations that Rwanda was organising acts of genocide in ...

Finally, the DRC has repeatedly requested that around 12,000 peacekeepers, who have rarely been decisive since their first deployment, in 1999, leave the country. In the end, Kinshasa fell out ...

The root cause of the eastern DRC conflict is, in fact, a lack of good governance and robust democracy across the African Great Lakes region. Lack of democracy, justice, and respect for human ...

Security forces in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) have been battling the M23 rebel group in the east of the country since 2012. However, there has been a major upsurge in fighting so ...