Fierce fighting between the March 23 Movement (M23) rebels and the Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of Congo (FARDC), ...

The Congolese government says it targeted an aircraft which rebels claim was delivering food aid before it was blown up in ...

Anselme Hamundwate, 23, right, and Mumbere Hamundwate, 25, work in a field in Katwa. After months of fighting in Lubero ...

U.S. funded treatments in the country have helped reduce deaths from HIV/AIDS to around 14,000 a year, from as high as ...

Violence in the east of the country continues to disproportionately affect women, boys, and girls, notably as rape and other forms of sexual violence are still being systematically used as weapons of ...

As the Foreign Ministers of Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) signed a draft peace agreement in Washington this Friday, tensions and violence continue to grip eastern DRC.

The United Nations has praised a newly signed peace agreement between the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Rwanda ...

"I think now we're a little safer," says Anselme Hamundwate, 23, who burned his family's field in Kirumba before he began plowing again in May.

Later, keep your eyes peeled for a video presented by BBC Verify’s Olga Robinson. She’ll be talking you through the details ...

The Alliance Fleuve Congo (AFC/M23) rebel movement has accused the Congolese government of bombing a humanitarian aircraft in South Kivu, nearly 72 hours after a peace deal was signed in ...

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Church leaders in Congo cautiously welcomed a U.S.-brokered July 27 peace agreement to end a long-running conflict in the ...