Leaders of Eastern and Southern African regional blocs met for an unprecedented joint summit on Saturday to find a solution ...

Regional leaders call on all warring parties - including the Rwanda-backed M23 rebels - to meet within five days.

We must resist the temptation to think that we can somehow shoot or bombard our way to a solution,” says Kenyan president.

Is it too late, asked Le Pays (Ouagadougou): have we "reached the point of no return" for another catastrophic conflict in ...

The Democratic Republic of Congo has been mired in conflict for years. As fresh fighting surges in the east, the roots of ...

Leaders from eastern and southern Africa have called for an immediate and unconditional ceasefire in eastern Congo, where ...

A single image captures the grim task facing those who needed to find space for the dead after a spasm of violence in Central ...

The war - concentrated in Congo’s eastern city of Goma where 3 million people live - exponentially raises the risk of ...

Nearly 3,000 people were killed over the last week as rebels captured a key city in one of the deadliest battles in the ...

The East African Community (EAC) and the Southern African Development Community (SADC) have agreed to sit down on the table ...

Ramaphosa also insisted, in a later statement, that the presence of South African troops in DR Congo was not a "declaration of war against any country or state" - an apparent reference to Rwanda.

AMSTERDAM, Feb 5 (Reuters) - International Criminal Court prosecutors said on Wednesday they were closely monitoring events in Democratic Republic of Congo, where Rwandan-backed rebels are trying ...