The Eastern Congo rebel coalition, which includes the M23 group, has announced a ceasefire for humanitarian reasons, yielding ...

The latest advances are part of a major escalation of a decades-old conflict over power, identity and resources.

Japan has sent the Democratic Republic of the Congo 50,000 doses of a vaccine against mpox, previously known as monkeypox.

The U.N. said the rebels were supported by at least some regular Rwandan troops, in the worst escalation of a long-running ...

United Nations officials say there were dead bodies on the streets of eastern Congo’s largest city where hospitals are ...

However, only the Japanese pharmaceutical company KM Biologics Co., based in Kumamoto, produces vaccines that can also be given to children. Congo has requested the vaccines from the company.

A Rwanda-backed militia seized the pivotal Congolese city of Goma this week, threatening a new humanitarian crisis after ...

Worldcategory Trump says Japan's prime minister will visit next week 9:45 PM UTC · Updated ago Africacategory Congo's army and Burundian allies slow M23 rebel's southern march 9:41 PM UTC ...

Protesters set fires and looted foreign embassies in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s capital, Kinshasa, amid anger at ...

M23 fighters marched into Goma on Monday in the worst escalation since 2012 of a three-decade conflict rooted in the long fallout from the Rwandan genocide and the struggle for control of Congo's ...

Fighting has escalated sharply in recent weeks in eastern Congo, where rebels have seized key towns and are closing in on the ...