M23 rebels in the DRC announced a ceasefire ... However, we reiterate our commitment to protecting and defending the civilian population and our positions. The UN said on Monday that at least 900 ...

The cities, with a joint population of more than three million people, are among the most populated in the DRC. The DRC and many Western countries accuse its neighbor Rwanda of backing M23 ...

The group is composed of Tutsi fighters and claims to be fighting for the rights of the DRC’s minority Tutsi population. It emerged in 2012 after a group from the armed forces of the DRC (FARDC ...

A key example is the Tutsi population, which exists on both sides of the DRC-Rwanda border. While they hold political power in Rwanda, they have long faced serious discrimination in the DRC.

Scores of children caught up in the conflict in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) have been subjected to sexual violence including rape by armed men, according to the United Nations ...

But will it actually work? Our past and ongoing research on army integration and demobilisation in eastern DRC casts doubt on the plan, for three reasons. The first risk is that armed groups will ...

DRC “has a governance model that if it does not change, the Congolese population will gain absolutely nothing, whether there is war or not,” he said. “If the Kinshasa government improves its ...

The crisis in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is back in the spotlight after the M23 militia, backed by eastern neighbour Rwanda, captured the mineral-rich city of Goma, which lies on the ...

"M23 and Rwandan forces penetrated Munigi quarter in the outskirts of Goma city, causing mass panic and flight amongst the population," said the UN's special representative in the DRC, Bintu Keita ...

DRC - Rwanda's President Paul Kagame was due to meet his Congolese counterpart Felix Tshisekedi in Tanzania on Saturday as regional leaders convene in a bid to defuse the conflict in Democratic ...