Brandon Marc Finn has received funding from the University of Michigan and Harvard University to conduct this research. Patrick Brandful Cobbinah has received research funding from the Lincoln ...

Fighting between Rwandan-backed M23 rebels and Congolese armed forces has exacerbated an already "dire situation" for millions of people, Dr Boureima Hama Sambo, WHO representative for the DRC ...

THE families of the 14 South African National Defence Force (SANDF) members who died in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) were still waiting for the remains of their loved ones late ...

An urgent summit being held in Tanzania on the recent developments in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is under way where African leaders are trying to find solutions to bring peace to the ...

The United Nations has called for efforts to prevent the conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) from spreading across the region. United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights ...

Days after the East African Community (EAC) met over the escalating conflict in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), leaders from the Southern African Development Community (SADC ...

In December, the DRC Ministry of Health announced the emergence of an unknown disease causing influenza-like symptoms. The disease outbreak was identified as a combination of malaria, respiratory ...

In the prelude to the summit, M23 fighters took Goma, the biggest city of eastern DRC and capital of North Kivu province. They have continued to push into neighbouring South Kivu. At least 3,000 ...

On 27 January, Rwanda-backed Mouvement du 23 Mars (M23) forces took control of Goma, capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s (DRC) North Kivu province. The city’s capture and M23’s advances ...

In 2013, South African forces backed by UN peacekeepers repelled rebels linked to the M23 movement successfully as part of the Force Intervention Brigade (FIB) in the eastern DRC. But perhaps ...

Event: The M23 NSAG claimed to have captured Goma, the capital of North Kivu province and strategic hub for eastern DRC, on 26 January Significance: Goma is the largest city in eastern DRC and is ...

“The situation in Goma is extremely grave and further complicating a humanitarian situation that was already beyond dire,” said Jean Francois Basse, UNICEF DRC’s acting Representative.