Regional leaders call on all warring parties - including the Rwanda-backed M23 rebels - to meet within five days.

Urgent Call for Ceasefire in Eastern Congo A high-level summit of African leaders has called for an “immediate and ...

Nearly three thousand people have been killed in the city of Goma in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, according to ...

Around 3,000 people have been killed in clashes between M23 rebels and government forces, and thousands more have been ...

A rebel group that claimed to have captured the city of Goma in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo last week has called for an immediate humanitarian ceasefire, after fighting with the Congolese ...

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

Rwandan-backed M23 rebels have seized control of a mining town in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo's South Kivu province, ...

Congolese troops have fought back against Rwanda-backed rebels who the U.N. says are moving fast into the South Kivu province ...

Malawi's President Lazarus Chakwera has ordered the military to begin preparing to withdraw from their peacekeeping mission ...

Goma remains “under occupation” by Congo’s M23 rebels and the ceasefire they announced has been broken as their forces engage ...

Nearly 3,000 people were killed over the last week as rebels captured a key city in one of the deadliest battles in the ...

People protest in Kinshasa against the Rwanda-backed M23 rebels' advances into eastern Congo's capital, Goma, on Tuesday. (Samy Ntumba Shambuyi/AP) The central African nation's military has been ...