Some 200 Uruguayan peacekeeping troops intended for the United Nations (UN) mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) ...

The remains of a Congolese customs worker who was killed for resisting a bribe and beatified by the Vatican have been ...

In the Ndosho neighbourhood of Goma, in the Democratic Republic of Congo, solar power is doing more than keeping the lights on. It’s reviving businesses, improving security,and restoring hope, in a ...

Ending USAID could lead to the deaths of 14 million people over the next five years, an analysis from a medical journal predicts.

Kibetsi is one of nearly a million Congolese who have returned to their homes since the M23 rebel group — backed by Rwanda ...

GOMA, Congo (AP) — Street lights erase the shadows where attackers once hid. Noisy, polluting diesel generators have gone silent. New businesses are taking root. In several Goma neighborhoods where ...

He was kidnapped and murdered in 2007 after blocking the transport of rancid rice from Rwanda. Pope Francis recognised him as a martyr last year, and the Vatican formally beatified him in Rome.

Rebels in eastern Congo's largest city, Goma, began a ceasefire on Tuesday and people rushed to bury some 2,000 victims of last week's battles for the city as they feared the spread of disease.

Around 400,000 people have fled the city of Goma and its surroundings in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), as the threat of another volcanic eruption at Mount Nyiragongo looms, a ...

The M23 briefly managed to take over Goma in 2012, prompting international donors to cut aid to Rwanda. Even then the rebels did not hold as much ground as they do now.

A town just west of the major east Congo city of Goma appeared under army control on Thursday hours after hundreds of residents fled an outbreak of gunfire for fear of an advance by M23 rebels ...

Solar minigrid brings light and hope to a Goma neighborhood, offering blueprint for rest of Congo. A solar minigrid in a Goma neighborhood where almost everyone lacked access to electricity just ...