The Rwanda-backed M23 armed group welcomed Thursday the prospect of direct negotiations with the Congolese government to end the conflict in the volatile eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. The ...

Will offers of resource wealth to the US and other powers help bring militia violence to heel in the Democratic Republic of ...

M23 fighters, backed by Rwanda, continue to advance into eastern DR Congo. While the rebels are outnumbered by the Congolese army, DW examines whether the military has the capacity to respond ...

Rwanda appears to be betting on its reputation as a key security partner and sports destination to minimize any backlash to its involvement in the war.

Is a deadly past replaying for Congolese as M23 rebels march on Kinshasa amid presence of Rwandan and Ugandan troops?

Officials from the party of Democratic Republic of Congo's former President Joseph Kabila appeared before a military ...

Russia castigated Syria's new leaders in a closed United Nations briefing this week, two sources briefed on the meeting told ...

Ottawa will suspend government deals with Rwanda, trade missions and export permits for Canadian controlled goods and ...

Since January, however, the rapid conquest and occupation of a huge area of the Democratic Republic of Congo by Rwanda and ...

ITS soldiers are underpaid and underarmed. Its ranks are riddled with factions pursuing their own interests. And successive ...

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

But President Felix Tshisekedi, who once formed an awkward power-sharing deal with Kabila, has recently accused him of ...