In February, Rwandan-backed armed group M23 conquered the region, occupying Goma in North Kivu, the largest city in eastern DRC, and Bukavu, a city of more than 1 million and the capital of ...

Recent days have seen the DRC grapple with devastating floods that have killed at least 72 people and injured 170 more, with the capital, Kinshasa, bearing the brunt of the crisis. At least 5,000 ...

Prince is no stranger to the DRC. Since at least 2015, firms linked to him have tried to gain a foothold in the country’s mining logistics and transport sectors. In 2023, the UN accused him of ...

For two months, the 30-something father has tried weekly to withdraw money from one of the city’s many banks. Each time he returns empty-handed and desperate, joining other residents facing the cash ...

The April 2025 flooding disaster in Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo, wasn’t just about intense rainfall. It was a symptom of recent land use change which has occurred rapidly ...

A boat has capsized after catching fire in the north-western part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), leaving at least 50 people dead and hundreds missing, a local official has said.

South African National Defence Force (SANDF) troops stationed in Goma may soon be forced to evacuate the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) by land, leaving all military assets behind. This ...

US President Donald Trump’s top Africa diplomat has emphasised that M23 rebels in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) must stop fighting and that Rwanda must end its military support ...

Beneath the red earth of southern DRC lies more than 70 percent of the world’s known cobalt reserves — a mineral so vital to modern batteries that it's been dubbed the “new oil.” Indeed, cobalt is a ...