where truckers ferrying copper out of Zambia and the Democratic Republic of Congo had stopped to rest. A towering man with slate-colored eyes yawned at the wheel. Mark Butcher, a Zimbabwean in his ...

This weekend, the group entered the gold-trading center of Bukavu in eastern Congo after government soldiers fled. By Elian Peltier and Justin Makangara Elian Peltier reported from Dakar ...

4:58 UN calls for ‘mediation,’ end of ‘crisis’ as M23 rebels rally in Congo’s Goma Rwandan-backed M23 rebels who in late January captured Goma, the biggest city in eastern Congo ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. M23 rebels march through the centre of eastern Congo’s second largest city early Sunday as some onlookers ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. The remains of 14 South African peacekeepers killed in the Democratic Republic of Congo have been ...

The human rights situation across the Democratic Republic of Congo remains dire, with internal conflicts and poor governance contributing to a severe food crisis and the internal displacement of 5 ...

Earlier on Saturday, Kainerugaba had said, without providing evidence, that people from the Bahima ethnic group were being killed in the Democratic Republic of Congo. "My people, the Bahima are ...

Tim Butcher was for a while the Daily Telegraph’s man in Africa. In 2002, he chose a lull in the conflict that has riven the Democratic Republic of Congo since the fall of Mobutu in 1994 to follow the ...

the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) holds presidential elections; and Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny goes missing. Welcome to “Women Around the World: This Week,” a series that ...

The rebels have been trying to push south towards Bukavu since they seized Goma, the largest city in eastern Congo, at the end of last month. The capture of Bukavu, the capital of South Kivu ...

Rwanda-backed rebels claimed they captured eastern Congo’s strategic city of Goma, the hub of a region containing trillions of dollars in mineral wealth that remains largely untapped ...

"Asaduzzamn Khan Kamal is the butcher of Bangladesh," he said today, referring to the killings of children, students, workers and rickshaw-pullers. For all latest news, follow The Daily Star's ...