Historian Christa Kuljian and paleoanthropologist Dipuo Kgotleng talk to The Conversation Weekly podcast about the ...

Lake Tanganyika is the longest lake in Africa (660 km long) and the second deepest lake in the world (1,436 meters deep). BCS Group has been laying a 24-core single armored submarine cable in Lake ...

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

GERMANY has put on hold financial support to Rwanda and is reviewing bilateral ties with the latter over its alleged backing of the March 23 Movement (M23) rebel group in the Democratic Republic of ...

A conflict that has simmered in Democratic Republic of Congo’s eastern borderlands for years is set to erupt into a wider ...

The front line between the M23 guerrillas and the "Wazalendo" militiamen runs through the Ruzizi plain (in the province of South Kivu, in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo). According to a ...

In the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), insecurity and horrific sexual violence have left tens of thousands fleeing across borders with no sign of the exodus stopping, the UN refugee ...

By taking Goma, the M23 and Rwanda crossed a Rubicon, as Kinshasa’s leaders cannot brook an all-out invasion of North and ...

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, today issued a new position on returns to the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), advising that Congolese nationals fleeing the conflict, as well as those ...

As the conflict continues to ravage the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, bishops are warning about the real possibility ...

The Humanitarian Coordinator in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Bruno Lemarquis, expresses his deep concern about the increasing number of incidents of targeted violence against civilians, ...

The United Nations says the Rwanda-backed M23 rebels have abducted at least 130 sick and wounded men in two hospitals in a ...