DAKAR, Senegal — Congo and Rwanda-backed rebels have signed a declaration of principles for a permanent ceasefire in eastern Congo, where ethnic tensions and quest for rich minerals have resulted in ...

Islamic State-linked killers are still murdering civilians in eastern Congo, far from the cameras, the cable-news panic, and the comfortable fiction that ISIS ended when the black flags came down.

In January, an offensive from the Rwandan-backed M23 rebel group routed much larger armies of the United Nations and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The rebels seized Goma, the largest city in ...

GOMA, Congo (AP) — U.S. President Donald Trump claims that the war in eastern Congo is among the ones he has stopped, after brokering a peace deal between Congo and Rwanda in June. But residents, ...

Over 7,000 dead. Hundreds raped. Displaced people’s camps flattened. City centers looted. Prisons set ablaze. Businesses bankrupted. Nearly 5 million people on the move. The latest conflict in the ...

The seizure of Goma in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo by the March 23 Movement, or M23, in late January exacerbated the humanitarian crisis fueled by the rebel group's resurgence and escalation ...

From 1998 to 2003, the Second Congo War raged in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It involved nine African nations and became one of the largest wars in African history. The war began about a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FILE - Former members of the Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of Congo (FARDC) and police officers who allegedly ...