The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is the second-largest country in Africa and the 11th-largest in the world by land area.

The hunt for tech-industry minerals in eastern Congo harks from a different age to the products they will become. Filthy ...

The M23 rebel alliance besieged Goma and forced hundreds of local troops to surrender, a move that has been condemned by ...

The SADC leaders, who met for an extraordinary summit in Harare on Friday, expressed concern about the deteriorating security ...

Picture: AFP Leaders from the Southern African Development Community (SADC) held crisis talks in Zimbabwe on Friday about the escalating violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo. They condemned ...

But is the conflict in eastern Congo a dangerous drama waiting for a spark that will rekindle the ethnic divisions of the past that eventually led to the gruesome death of millions of people?

Rwandan-backed M23 rebels say they are now in control of the key eastern Congolese city of Goma. Their fighters continue to claim more territory in one of the world's most mineral-rich territories.

Kagame’s leadership has been marked by authoritarianism, intolerance of dissent, and a willingness to destabilise neighbouring countries to achieve his goals.

The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has heavily relied on foreign mercenaries to bolster its military efforts against the M23 rebels, despite the government’s insistence that they were merely ...

THE widespread awareness and growing availability of low-cost tools powered by artificial intelligence (AI) is putting them on the radar of African governments and entrepreneurs keen to develop ...

Southern African leaders pledged "unwavering" backing Friday to the Democratic Republic of Congo after advances by the Rwanda-backed M23 group, which ...