Storyline: As senior officials from east and south African nations gathered in Tanzania on Friday for a joint summit to ...

KINSHASA, Feb. 21 (Xinhua) -- United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Peace Operations Jean-Pierre Lacroix warned on Friday that the conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) could ...

Burundi is facing a rapidly worsening humanitarian situation as more than 40,000 people have fled there in two weeks to ...

Analysts say the deadly march by Rwanda-backed rebels across eastern Congo could widen into a regional conflict drawing in ...

Leaders of Eastern and Southern African regional blocs met for an unprecedented joint summit on Saturday to find a solution ...

As vast swaths of Congolese territory are seized by a Rwandan-backed armed group, Congo’s president looks to make a minerals ...

M23 rebels in the Democratic Republic of Congo have captured the eastern city of Bukavu with the backing of Rwandan forces, ...

Russian forces sharply increased combat activity in eastern Ukraine on Saturday and the main attacks were concentrated near ...

An uneasy calm held Sunday on the Democratic Republic of Congo's eastern front after regional powers dreading ... and ...

When Mobutu fled Kinshasa, the Kabila-Kagame coalition won the First Congo War in 1997. Kabila was installed as president of Zaire and changed the country’s name back to The Democratic Republic ...

Leaders from eastern and southern Africa have called for an immediate and unconditional ceasefire in eastern Congo, where ...