Perishable Peace Dividends finds that road rehabilitation temporarily reduces violence in the DRC by 5-10%, but conflict ...

Without grassroots support, Kabila was seen by many Congolese as an imposition. His belated attempt to gain legitimacy by ...

During the past few weeks in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, a lengthy conflict has been condensed into a series of violent episodes that will determine the country’s future. On January ...

Late Sunday, the U.N.’s special representative for Congo told an emergency meeting of the U.N. Security Council that with the airport shut down and roads blocked in the vast region’s ...

Rwanda-backed M23 insurgents shot dead three boys who had picked up guns left by Congolese soldiers fleeing the rebel advance ...

Many, however, tried to flee into neighboring Rwanda, marching in the heat and through the night along roads with heavy traffic ... over control of eastern Congo’s mineral wealth, and the ...

has suspended its aid operations due to armed group and Congolese army operations that have shuttered roads and supply lines,” said David Munkley, head of operations in eastern Congo for the ...

Corneille Nangaa, head of the political coalition backing the M23, Alliance Fleuve Congo, said people were leaving because roads had reopened, and that their aim was to facilitate their return ...

Residents say Rwanda-backed rebels appear to be heading toward a third major city in eastern Congo. International pressure ...

In an emergency U.N. Security Council meeting Sunday, Bintou Keita, head of the U.N. stabilization mission in Congo, said that roads leading to Goma were blocked and that the rebels had closed the ...

Gunshots rang out across Goma overnight before dozens of men in military uniform were seen early Monday morning marching with their guns into the city ...