Rwanda has economic as well as security interests. Kigali denies UN evidence that it smuggles vast amounts of gold and other ...

Nearly 3,000 people were killed over the last week as rebels captured a key city in one of the deadliest battles in the ...

Uganda has deployed more than 1,000 extra soldiers into east Congo in the last week near an area where the Kinshasa government is fighting M23 rebels, four diplomatic and U.N. sources said, ...

There is a good chance that inside your mobile phone is a miniscule amount of a metal that started its journey buried in the ...

Thirty years after the violence, a related border conflict escalates, with control of mineral wealth at stake.

In Stanford's first inaugural Congo Week, students and experts celebrate Congolese heritage and discuss important issues regarding the DRC.

Rwandan-backed M23 rebels say they are now in control of the key eastern Congolese city of Goma. Their fighters continue to ...

Protesters in Kinshasa, the capital of Democratic Republic of Congo, have been burning portraits of ... the rebels - an accusation long made by the UN. To put it bluntly, a group of UN experts ...

Critical minerals factor into the fight.

Congolese forces were losing control of the city of Goma on Wednesday after rebel groups backed by Rwanda took over the airport and shared plans to set up a new administration.

Rwanda, which has long denied supporting the M23 despite evidence collected by United Nations experts, says it wants to protect ethnic ... Congo’s leaders must answer in any negotiations with the M23, ...

Congo considers M23 a "terrorist group" and refuses to negotiate directly ... peace talks between Congo and Rwanda in mid-December. As ethnic conflict between Hutus and Tutsis persists as one ...