Despite its diminutive size on the all-too-common world maps that use Mercator projection, Africa is the second-largest ...

International Organization for Migration (IOM) Deputy Director General for Management and Reform SungAh Lee called for urgent ...

A delegation of the Democratic Republic of Congo's (DRC) government held fresh talks with M23 rebels in Qatar last week about stopping the fighting in the country's east, a source close to the ...

14 South African soldiers were killed in fighting in the Eastern DRC in January as rebels backed by Rwanda pushed towards Goma. The SADC force they were a part of announced a withdrawal earlier ...

All of them have been in Goma at the military base of the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in DRC (MONUSCO). Once they arrive in Kinshasa, the authorities will take responsibility for ...

Prince is no stranger to the DRC. Since at least 2015, firms linked to him have tried to gain a foothold in the country’s mining logistics and transport sectors. In 2023, the UN accused him of ...

Recent days have seen the DRC grapple with devastating floods that have killed at least 72 people and injured 170 more, with the capital, Kinshasa, bearing the brunt of the crisis. At least 5,000 ...

The main mines exploiting coltan in the Great Lakes region of central Africa are found in the Rubaya area of eastern DRC. In February, Rwandan-backed armed group M23 conquered the region ...

In an interview with AFP, Maxime Prevot urged both sides to negotiate an end to the conflict in the DRC's troubled east, where the M23 has seized swathes of territory from the Congolese government.

Plantations et Huileries du Congo, the DRC’s leading palm oil producer, plans to exponentially increase its palm oil ...