For me, the 100th anniversary of Virunga National Park is the fruit of resistance. A peaceful resistance led by local ...

(Photo by Al Jazeera English / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 4.0 DEED) The M23 rebel group, which seized control of large parts of North and South Kivu in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo ...

Months of clashes between Kiir's forces and those loyal to the first vice-president Machar, who was arrested in March, have ...

The legendary west African kingdom of Kaabu has long been memorialized in the songs and stories of griots. That's inspired ...

The rebels now occupy nearly all of North Kivu and parts of South Kivu—territories spanning the Grand Kivu region’s 257,000 square kilometers. “Many families have fled the war, and those who ...

M23 rebels have already captured several towns in eastern DRC, including Goma and Bukavu, the capitals of North and South Kivu provinces, respectively. Around one million people, including some ...

After taking Goma, “the M23 faced a dilemma: stay in Goma to consolidate its positions and demonstrate its ability to run ...

Every morning the Congolese city of Bukavu, now under the control of the Rwanda-backed M23 movement, counts its dead.

The Democratic Republic of the Congo has some of the largest deposits on Earth. Its President wants to sell them—and win a ...

The area of Butembo and Beni in North Kivu (east of the Democratic Republic of Congo) is still in the hands of the Congolese government, after M23 rebels captured the provincial capital, Goma (see ...