"I am a mother of four children whom I send to school. I collect empty plastic bottles; after washing them, I fill them with water or fruit juice from a powdered preparation, put them in the freezer, ...

Learn about sources of continued violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo and how the United Nations, African Union, and neighboring countries are struggling to curtail it.

PRETORIA - A crippling crisis within the South African Air Force (SAAF) has deepened, with revelations that President Cyril ...

A US-brokered peace deal aims to end Congo’s long war, but with rebels absent from the talks, many doubt whether signatures alone can bring real change.

The DRC and Rwanda have signed a new deal to repatriate refugees, but violence and mistrust still threaten any lasting ...

U.S. funded treatments in the country have helped reduce deaths from HIV/AIDS to around 14,000 a year, from as high as 200,000.

A new peace agreement offers hope of quelling hostilities between Kinshasa and Kigali in the eastern Democratic Republic of ...

Rwanda provided “critical” support to the M23 rebels’ recent offensive in eastern Congo, which helped secure Kigali’s access ...

In eastern DRC, hopes for lasting peace remain fragile. The M23 rebel group, which controls key territory, responded ...

Ongoing violence in Ituri province in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) could be at an end following a six-group agreement signed this week (1 July), the United Nations (UN) mission in the ...

The peace agreement recently signed between the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Rwanda is only a beginning; the r ...