Uganda has deployed more than 1,000 extra soldiers into east Congo in the last week near an area where the Kinshasa government is fighting M23 rebels, four diplomatic and U.N. sources said, ...

The United Nations World Food Program (WFP) said on Tuesday that about 1 million people have been displaced since the ...

The Uganda Revenue Authority (URA) has diverted goods destined for the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) away from the Katuna and Cyanika border posts. ;URA cites what it is calling the critical ...

Nearly 3,000 people have been killed in the city of Goma in the eastern Democratic Republic ... which borders Rwanda and Uganda. The region is home to rare minerals – including vast deposits ...

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

Red Cross team members proceed with the burial of victims of the fighting in Goma, following the intensification of fighting between M23 rebels and the Congolese army, at ITIG Cemetery ...

Countries bordering the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo sought to shore up defences on Wednesday as violence spreads ...

Uganda has been helping Congo fight the Islamist ... M23 rebels have been consolidating their hold on Goma and moving on Bukavu, a town some 200 km (125 miles) to the south. After meeting ...

Uganda Sends 1,000 More Soldiers to East Congo ... The Rwandan-backed M23 recently captured regional capital Goma in an anarchic and mineral-rich part of Democratic Republic of Congo where wars ...