The South African armed forces say they have begun withdrawing their peacekeeping troops from rebel-controlled eastern Congo.

South Africa’s armed forces announced Thursday they had begun pulling their peacekeepers out of eastern Congo, a region now under the sway of rebel fighters.

The International Committee of the Red Cross says it has helped transfer hundreds of Congolese soldiers and police officers from the rebel-controlled town of Goma in eastern Congo to the capital ...

DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Authorities in Congo have asked the country's Senate to lift the immunity of former President Joseph ...

Hundreds of Congolese soldiers and police officers seeking refuge at the United Nations' base in Goma since the eastern city's capture in January are being transferred to Kinshasa, the International ...

The emerging crisis in eastern DR Congo and especially around the city of Goma, in the province of North Kivu, has worrying implications for cholera in the region. The area around Goma has been ...

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The long-awaited transfer of defeated Congolese soldiers sheltered at a UN base in M23-controlled Goma in eastern DR Congo has begun, with up to 130 troops leaving the city this morning.

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) on Wednesday launched the repatriation of several hundred unarmed members of the Democratic Republic of the Congo Armed Forces (FARDC) and National ...

In an escalation of a long-running conflict rooted in the spillover of Rwanda's 1994 genocide and the struggle over Congo's vast mineral resources, Rwanda-backed M23 rebels seized Goma ...

GOMA, Congo (AP) — An artisanal gold mine collapsed in a rebel-controlled territory in eastern Congo, killing at least 10 people, authorities said Thursday. The collapse at the Luhihi mine in ...

Rights advocate Christophe Muisa in Goma, a city in east Congo that the powerful, Rwandan-backed M23 armed group seized earlier this year, said the U.S. is the main beneficiary of the deal.