A government statement on Saturday night said 52 people had been killed in and around Goma, though the figure could not be independently verified. The government statement blamed M23. M23 spokesperson ...

The government is to hold its first direct talks with the Rwanda-backed militants in Doha later this week.

"I work here every day to support my family," said Prospere Mihigo, a young miner, in plain words that somehow mask the grueling reality of life in this turbulent region.Rubaya, one of the world's ...

The Americans, Marcel Malanga, Tyler Thompson Jr., and Benjamin Reuben Zalman-Polun were among 37 people sentenced to death by a military court in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC ...

The M23 has taken control of large swathes of the DRC's eastern provinces of North and South Kivu since 2021 and captured their capitals Goma and Bukavu in a lightning offensive earlier this year.

Gabon will elect a new president on Saturday, after 19 months of interim rule by military leaders who seized power in a coup. Gabon is one of the richest countries in Africa in terms of per-capita ...

Chicago's eastern boundary is formed by Lake Michigan, and the city is divided by the Chicago River into three geographic sections: the North Side, the South Side and the West Side. These sections ...

The conflict in eastern DRC escalated in January when the rebels advanced and seized the strategic city of Goma, followed by Bukavu in February. M23 is one of about 100 armed groups that have been ...

The minister and his new director have known each other for many years. In the early 2000s when he was at the helm of the SNPC, Itoua dispatched Onanga to train as an oil engineer in Houston.

Muslims around the world have been holding prayers to mark the festival of Eid al-Fitr after the end of Ramadan. Elon Musk’s SpaceX dominates the news these days, but a host of oddballs involved ...