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

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

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

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

UN agency says children as young as 12 are also being enlisted or coerced to join the fighting by armed groups. Analysts weigh in on Rwanda’s role in the conflict in DRC, whether minerals are a ...

The continued occupation of North Kivu in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) by the M23 armed group has “severely constrained” the UN stabilisation force’s ability to protect civilians ...

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 has begun pulling its forces out of eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DR Congo), where they had been fighting ...

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

A high-stakes joint summit of the East African Community (EAC) and the Southern African Development Community (SADC) ...

The Rwanda-backed M23 armed group has rapidly seized swathes of territory in the mineral-rich eastern Democratic Republic of ...

17 (UPI) --M23 rebels in the Democratic Republic of Congo captured the eastern city ... Development Community at a regional summit in Tanzania called to address the crisis. Advertisement "Contrary ...