Congolese religious leaders are aiming to organise peace talks that would bring President Felix Tshisekedi's government, Rwanda-backed M23 rebels and exiled opposition figures around the same table, ...

Government forces and local militias have clashed south of the provincial capital of Bukavu in eastern Democratic Republic of ...

The rebels have been pushing south towards Bukavu, the second-largest city in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, since ...

Rwanda-backed rebels tightened their grip on Bukavu on Monday, a day after seizing the second major city in eastern Congo ...

Rwanda-backed rebels reached the center of east Congo’s second largest city, Bukavu, on Sunday morning and took control of the South Kivu province administrative office after little resistance from ...

President Félix Tshisekedi, deeming the mission a failure, had asked it to leave by the end of last year. But the departure was delayed and in December the mission was extended for another year.

DR Congo President Felix Tshisekedi will not attend the African Union summit that Ethiopia is hosting this weekend (15-16 February). Désiré Assogbavi, political analyst, was our guest.

FILE: President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo Felix Tshisekedi addresses a press conference following his working lunch with French President at the Elysee Palace in Paris on April 30 ...

Congolese President Felix Tshisekedi meanwhile was seeking international support to help end the crisis, warning the Munich Security Conference of the risk of a wider war. "Of course this could ...

M23 rebels have made rapid advances in the latest bout of conflict that has long-dogged the mineral-rich east.