DR Congo's prime minister tells the BBC her government will not sit down with the militants.

The latest conflict in eastern Congo has exposed endemic weaknesses in the country’s military, long known for corruption, extortion and abuse.

It is a second such strategy the DRC government is employing to turn the tide on M23 and Rwanda, which Kinshasa accuses of ...

In February 2025, the UN Human Rights Council adopted a resolution agreeing to establish a fact-finding mission on the ...

The army of the Democratic Republic of Congo has accused Rwanda of dressing up prisoners in military uniforms in an effort to ...

UNICEF recorded nearly 600 cases of rape in the week following the fall of Goma, in the east of the country, at the end of ...

The British prime minister, Keir Starmer, declared yesterday that “we are at a crossroads in history,” and announced that ...

This comes as military experts and political parties have united in demanding transparency and accountability over the ...

Producers: Patricia Whitehorne, Yvette Twagiramariya and Stefania Okereke in London with Blessing Aderogba in Lagos. Editors: Andre Lombard and Alice Muthengi.

The Rwanda Defence Force (RDF) has confirmed receiving 14 captured fighters suspected to be members of the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR) from the Alliance Fleuve Congo/March 23 ...

Democratic Republic of Congo's government and Rwandan-backed M23 rebels traded blame on Friday for explosions at a rally in ...

Many of the world’s rare minerals are in the DRC. Western companies are heavily involved in mining them. They prefer a weak government in ...