The Democratic Republic of Congo’s national flag — a rich blue banner studded with gold stars — has been raised in the eastern rebel stronghold of Goma, a move a rebel official said on Wednesday was a ...

The army of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) asked the Senate this week to revoke former President Joseph Kabila’s immunity from prosecution. Removal of Kabila’s immunity would pave the way ...

In January, an offensive from the Rwandan-backed M23 rebel group routed much larger armies of the United Nations and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The rebels seized Goma, the largest city in ...

Amnesty International on Thursday published a briefing on the 2000 Kisangani War, urging the government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) to prosecute those responsible for crimes ...

The capture of Goma, the provincial capital of North Kivu, by the M23 is widely seen as the most significant escalation in the conflict in the restive eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) since ...

The DRC’s independence anniversary renews debate over progress, security and state capacity.

On 4 December 2025, Rwanda’s lean, spare president Paul Kagame and his Congolese counterpart Félix Tshisekedi — known at home as “Fatshi” — sat in the Oval Office on either side of Donald Trump, who ...