Retired European military officers are protecting resource-rich North Kivu province from falling to Rwandan-backed M23 rebels. The job is well paid but soldiers face a well-armed adversary.

Retired military officers from Europe protect the highly-prized DRC province of North Kivu from falling to Rwandan-backed rebels. The job is well paid but soldiers must also deal with a better-armed ...

A mystery disease in the Democratic Republic of Congo is spreading mainly among children and putting severely malnourished ...

At 7am, heavily armed Congolese soldiers, mainly from the Republican Guard’s Special Forces, deployed massively around the ...

In North Kivu, the inhabitants of the villages of Maboya-Loya and Kikere have not yet seen a penny of the millions of dollars in reparations paid to Congo by Uganda for the violence perpetrated by ...

Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad—responsible for sweeping human rights abuses, brutal repression, and crimes against humanity ...

War brings unimaginable pain and loss, and the 21st century has seen some of the deadliest conflicts in history. Millions ...

North Kivu province and two other senior army officers must be investigated for possible crimes against humanity committed while suppressing a demonstration in Goma city, in which at least 56 people ...

Scattered along the banks of the Ituri River, buildings cram together, cranes transport dirt and debris scatters ...

OKAPI WILDLIFE RESERVE, Congo (AP) — For eight years, a Chinese mining company has been vastly expanding inside an endangered World Heritage Site, accused by locals and conservationists of decimating ...

Romanian investigators have arrested a security contractor and another man for allegedly planning to instigate unrest after presidential elections were scrapped due to claims of Russian interference.