The group's capture of most of Goma, the capital of North Kivu province, is a dramatic escalation in a region that has seen ...

Democratic Republic of Congo President Felix Tshisekedi has vowed “a vigorous and coordinated response” against a rebel ...

Amid escalating tensions in East Africa and the Middle East, Rwanda and Israel have reaffirmed their strategic alliance, ...

Kagame's comments clearly suggested that he wants South Africa to back off from DR Congo, where its military involvement dates back to the late 1990s. It first joined the UN's peacekeeping mission, ...

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The scene is the result of the invasion of Goma on January 27th by M23, an armed group under the control of Rwanda, Congo’s neighbour, which abuts the city. Paul Kagame, Rwanda’s president, has ...

They may be on opposite sides of the Congolese battlefield only by proxy, but Pretoria and Kigali are now trading undiplomatic warnings. The war in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is also ...

Uganda has confirmed an outbreak of the Ebola virus in the capital Kampala with the first confirmed patient dying from it on ...

Local sources said Kigali-backed fighters were advancing on a new front and had seized two districts in South Kivu province, ...

Rwanda appears to be in a heated race to host the Formula 1 Grand Prix, 30 years after it was last held on African soil.

Congo's leader has called on young people to enlist in the army to help fight Rwanda-backed rebels attempting to seize more ...