The latest conflict in eastern Congo has exposed endemic weaknesses in the country’s military, long known for corruption, extortion and abuse.

For decades, the Congo Basin was largely invisible to climate science. Now, a new generation of Central African researchers ...

Will offers of resource wealth to the US and other powers help bring militia violence to heel in the Democratic Republic of ...

Namibia officially launched the Time Release Study (TRS) Report for the Trans-Kalahari Border Post on Thursday, which is another step towards improving trade efficiency and border management.

Map by Joel Masselink ... Conservation and conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo: The impacts of warfare, mining, and protected areas on deforestation. Biological Conservation, 191 ...

The SADC and East African Community (EAC) joint process has appointed three eminent former African leaders to facilitate efforts to find lasting peace in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) where ...

With three neighbouring armies already on the ground, a conflict that has simmered in Democratic Republic of Congo’s eastern borderlands for years is evolving into a wider regional war.

The Congo River Alliance ... "The city of Bukavu can no longer hold." Image: Map of DRC showing Goma, Bukavu and Kinshasa Bukavu is the provincial capital of South Kivu, which is located in ...

The war in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo, on the border with Rwanda, has caused at least six million deaths in ...

Drawing on data from the CIVICUS Monitor Watchlist, Newsweek has created this map to show countries on the Human Rights ...

In January, the rebel group M23 captured Goma, the largest city in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo. The ethnic ... around 1000 miles away. Google Maps says it is a 47 hour drive ...