An international festival promoting peace that was due to take place in violence-racked eastern Democratic Republic of Congo has been called off for security reasons, organisers said on Thursday.

The FARDC helicopter crashed on the runway of Ndolo airport, Kinshasa's second airport, at around 11am local time.

The South African contingent of the three nation Southern African Development Community (SADC) mission to the Democratic ...

Democratic Republic of Congo's army on Tuesday said it had taken ... on Sunday morning when rebels seized it from Congolese armed forces and pro-government armed groups. The Tutsi-led M23 group ...

Rwanda-backed rebels have made inroads in the eastern DR Congo, local sources told AFP on Thursday, while the Congolese army accused Rwanda of abusing a ceasefire deal to seize territory.

Kamandi-Gite is situated approximately 130 kilometres from Goma City. Several reliable sources confirmed the presence of M23 ...

ALSO READ: Rwanda not responsible for DR Congo's 250 armed groups, says envoy A coalition of the Congolese armed forces (FARDC) has been fighting the M23 rebels in North Kivu since November 2021.

It is also at the heart of diplomatic tensions between Rwanda and DR Congo. The FDLR has been integrated into the Congolese armed forces. ALSO READ: Rwanda raises concerns over DR Congo arming FDLR, ...

Since the current outbreak of mpox clade I began in eastern DR Congo in 2023, there has been a rapid increase in cases, primarily in DR Congo, and spread of the monkeypox virus to other countries in ...

On October 31, 2024, Dr Denis Mukwege, a world-renowned gynecologist, human rights activist and Nobel Peace Prize laureate ...