The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is having “daily exchanges” with the United States government with the aim of securing a minerals-for-security deal, Congolese officials have told ...

The government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the Rwanda-backed M23 rebels will hold talks next week, mediator Angola has announced. A statement from President Joao Lourenco’s ...

The Southern African country has been trying to mediate a lasting ceasefire and de-escalate tensions between the DRC and neighboring Rwanda, which has been accused of backing the Tutsi-led rebel ...

Under the revised terms, the DRC is supposed to receive $324 million (€312 million) annually for road infrastructure over a 20-year period. However, these payments are only guaranteed if copper ...

The European Union will reconsider its recent critical raw materials agreement with Rwanda in response to conflict in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), High Representative Kaja ...

Some of the members were critically injured and had to be admitted to hospital for critical care. The remaining soldiers that are in the DRC are set to arrive during the course of this week. A group ...

Almost a month after the capture of the Congolese town of Goma by the M23 rebels, supported by Rwanda according to the UN, the DRC was on the agenda of the Foreign Affairs Council in Brussels.

“Our objective is to regain power democratically in the DRC,” Ramazani Shadary, Kabila’s ally and former governor of the Maniema province, told us last week. The former Congolese head of state had ...

Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) South African National Defence Force (SANDF) Southern African Development Community (SADC) South African troops in the DRC, SANDF. Facebook/SA National Defence ...

As Rwandan-backed M23 fighters continue to make significant advances in eastern DRC, having captured the cities of Goma and Bukavu, the conflict is now triggering warnings from the UN Security ...

Africa-focused Ivanhoe Mines (TSX: IVN) has pushed its Makoko copper deposit past 13 km in strike length and found fresh high-grade copper at Kitoko, it said Monday in an exploration update.

“The scale of sexual violence against children in eastern DRC is beyond a crisis – it is a tragedy. We are seeing an alarming increase in cases, not seen in years, with many young survivors ...