The Democratic Republic of Congo has been mired in conflict for years. As fresh fighting surges in the east, the roots of ...

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The M23 rebels last week captured Goma, the largest city in eastern Democratic Republic of ... in Dar es Salaam. Congo’s Felix Tshisekedi attended via video link. “History will judge us ...

The seizure by M23 rebels of vast tracts of land in the mineral-rich east of the Democratic Republic of ... which has a long history of outside interference. The DR Congo is so vast - two-thirds ...

In Central Africa lies a country, almost a subcontinent, roughly the size of all of Western Europe—one of the richest countries in terms of resources, yet one of the poorest in terms of resource gain ...

Leaders from east and southern Africa have called for an immediate and unconditional ceasefire to end the deadly fighting in the Democratic Republic of Congo. At a crisis summit in Tanzania ...

Despite being the second-largest country in Africa and rich in natural resources like oil, diamonds, gold and cobalt (which is used to make our smartphones), Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC ...

these recent developments in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) are just the latest in the central African nation's troubled history. DRC gained independence in 1960 and since then the UN ...

AFP In the eastern reaches of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), where the shimmering waters of Lake ... where they became targets of violence and discrimination. Despite their long history in ...

Talks are under way among leaders of African countries to end fighting in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), in which thousands of people have been killed, thousands forced to leave their ...