Using two decades of satellite data, researchers found that forest loss and fragmentation were among the strongest predictors ...

A rampaging rebel group has claimed the capture of another mining town in the eastern part ... if it hopes for lasting peace. DRC “has a governance model that if it does not change, the ...

Walikale has become a strategic junction in the eastern DRC, where a long-running conflict between the army and rebel groups was reignited in December. The town is now a key crossing point towards ...

Rwanda-backed M23 rebels have pushed deeper into the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), capturing the town of Walikale despite growing international calls for a ceasefire. The rebels ...

Security sources have told Al Jazeera that the Rwanda-backed rebels had entered Nyabiondo village, about 100km (62 miles) north of Goma and located on the road leading to the strategic town of ...

Picture: AFP CAPE TOWN - Deputy President Paul Mashatile said that the decision by the Southern African Development Community (SADC) to withdraw troops from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC ...

The fighting follows clashes last week between M23 and a pro-Congolese government militia in the village of Tambi, about 18 km northeast of the town of Masisi ... an allegation the DRC rejects.

President Ramaphosa said that the SADC-East African community was working on securing a permanent ceasefire and getting foreign forces to leave the DRC ... entrance of the town of Sake, 25km ...

Angola announced on Monday it would withdraw from its role as mediator in the conflict in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) between government forces and the M23 rebel group in order to ...