The fighting between M23 rebels and the Congolese army has made thousands of civilians flee to the area around Goma, ...

Panic spread in eastern Congo's main city on Thursday, with M23 rebels steadily inching closer to Goma and seizing a nearby town as they battle the Congolese army. Bombs were heard going off in the ...

Panic spread in Goma on Thursday, with M23 rebels moving toward the city in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo as they battle the Congolese military. Congolese helicopter gunships swooped over the p ...

Many Congolese see the rebel advance as an invasion of their country by a foreign power in an attempt to seize land and Congo’s valuable rare minerals.

Laden with just the possessions they can carry, thousands of displaced people have reached the outskirts of the city of Goma ...

NZULO, Congo -- The M23 rebel group's advance toward eastern Congo's largest city has displaced over 178,000 people in the ...

The world biggest humanitarian disaster continues to claim victims as the war in Sudan drags on. On Wednesday, 20 months on since the conflict began, the US called the actions of one-half of the ...

In addition the Belgians created a system of "Native Authorities", new administrations that granted formal control of "indigenous" land to each ethnic group that could trace its ancestry to 1885, when ...

Soon after, violence erupted between presidential guard soldiers from the two largest ethnic groups in South Sudan. Soldiers from the Dinka ethnic group aligned with Kiir, and those from the Nuer ...