Burundi has "accelerated" the withdrawal of some troops from DR Congo, a senior military source told AFP Thursday, as the UN warned the small Great Lakes nation was seeing its biggest influx of ...

At least 179 people have been hospitalized in Bukavu, the provincial capital of South Kivu in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, according to the International Committee of the Red Cross ...

Recent weeks have seen the rapid progression of the M23, which has seized vast tracts of the eastern DR Congo, including the cities of Goma and Bukavu on Lake Kivu. "If our information is correct ...

Similarly, the Director of the UN Joint Human Rights Office in DR Congo, UNJHRO, Patrice Vahard, in a statement, emphasized the severity of the situation. “The consequences will be huge ...

If security situation not resolved and combined with US aid suspension, DR Congo will become epicenter of major pandemic outbreak, says Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention chief M23 ...

There are fears the escalation of fighting between troops and militias in the vast mineral-rich region could trigger a repeat of the devastating Congo wars of the 1990s and 2000s that drew in ...

Tshisekedi, he added, "doesn't have the right sources." Anxiety is visible on the streets of Kinshasa as the army puts up limited resistance against the M23 group's advance and residents question ...

As Rwanda-backed rebels strolled through the streets of eastern Democratic Republic of Congo's second-largest city, President Felix Tshisekedi's office claimed it was actually still controlled by ...

Burundi is dealing with its biggest influx of refugees in 25 years as families flee the escalating conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the United Nations refugee agency said. Rwandan-backed ...

Congo-Kinshasa: DR Congo's Crisis - Time for Dialogue, Not War Moses Sawasawa/MSF People living in camps, like Nzulo camp, are fleeing to Goma as fightings take place some kilometers away.