Aerial view of forest areas and agricultural plots in the DRC. Photo: World Bank Initiatives in agroforestry, clean energy, and community-driven forest management have reached more than 421,000 people ...

Backed by Rwanda, the M23 armed group has swept through the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo, taking two regional capitals. It is the latest escalation in an area that has long been victim of ...

Democratic Republic of Congo's President Felix Tshisekedi and his Rwandan counterpart Paul Kagame met in Doha on Tuesday for the first time since the latest M23 advance that has seen the rebels seize ...

GOMA, Democratic Republic of Congo - The leader of Rwandan-backed M23 rebels in eastern Congo said on Thursday that a call by Kinshasa and Kigali for an immediate ceasefire "doesn't concern us" as ...

African leaders have expressed optimism following talks between Democratic Republic of Congo President Felix Tshisekedi and his Rwandan counterpart Paul Kagame who held an informal meeting in ...

GOMA, Congo (AP) — Rwanda-backed M23 rebels battling Congo’s army captured another strategic town in the country’s mineral-rich east, residents and insurgents said Thursday, despite ...

Here is a map and breakdown of the M23’s advance in eastern Congo. M23 fighters and their Rwandan allies launched an offensive on Walikale in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo on Wednesday, about ...

In a Feb. 8 letter to Trump, Félix Tshisekedi, president of the Democratic Republic of Congo, offered mining opportunities for the U.S. Sovereign Wealth Fund, an entity Trump had launched a few ...

On 13 March, the Southern African Development Community (SADC) announced the termination and phased withdrawal of its military deployment in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). This ...

Rwanda-backed M23 rebels have pushed deeper into the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), capturing the town of Walikale despite growing international calls for a ceasefire. The rebels ...

Years of war between the Congolese armed forces and over one hundred militia groups have transfigured the DRC into an ugly and bloodied battlefield. By all accounts, the current President of the ...

As a refugee, her last name is not being used for her protection. Months of fighting in eastern DRC have uprooted hundreds of thousands of people - in a country where millions have already been ...