M23 fighters, backed by Rwanda, continue to advance in eastern DR Congo. While the rebels are outnumbered by the Congolese army, DW examines whether the military has the capacity to respond ...

A spokesperson for the European Investment Bank said that the bank is delaying decisions on financing the Ruzizi III hydroelectric ...

The European Investment Bank is holding off on decisions to finance the $760 million Ruzizi III hydropower plant in Central ...

Since January, however, the rapid conquest and occupation of a huge area of the Democratic Republic of Congo by Rwanda and ...

taking a swath of territory including the North Kivu capital of Goma, on Lake Kivu and at the border with Rwanda. As for UN peacekeepers, Jean-Pierre Lacroix, the head of the world body's peace ...

“For two days—Friday and Saturday—there was nothing but gunfire and looting,” said a resident of the Kadutu market, a key district in Bukavu, the capital of South Kivu in the Democratic ...

A professor of global health was in Kivu when the fighting began to rage. She recounts what she and her colleagues ...

Frank, a World Vision staff member, lost two family members—Laurianne and Jean-Pierre—when the M23 siege on Goma turned their ...

Congolese soldiers in a mix of fatigues and street clothes crowded into a chapel last week to stand trial for crimes ...

Two explosions that rocked a city in eastern DR Congo after a meeting of the Rwanda-backed M23 group Thursday have killed at ...