Our tour of Goma airport earlier this week took much longer than I had anticipated. There was simply too much to see, too much dangerous stuff on the tarmac and other sections to navigate, and too ...

Commission, Dr Moussa Faki Mahamat, has welcomed decisions made by the Southern Africa Development Community (Sadc) and the East African Community (EAC) to hold a joint summit to find a lasting ...

African diplomacy is in high gear as leaders seek to stop the conflict in the DRC. As the rest of the world loudly cautions Kinshasa and M23 rebels for restraint, African negotiators choose a ...

FOOTAGE SHOT AT THE BORDER CROSSING BETWEEN GOMA (DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO) AND GISENYI (RWANDA) OF CIVILIANS WORKING FOR MONUSCO (UN ... the most detailed map of the brain EVER seen ...

There is a good chance that inside your mobile phone is a miniscule amount of a metal that started its journey buried in the ...

Thirty years after the violence, a related border conflict escalates, with control of mineral wealth at stake.

This aerial shot from Rubaya taken in 2014 shows how the coltan operation worked at one mine [File photo: Monusco] They are part of a complex ... to continue exporting coltan. The UN experts map a ...

Analysts weigh in on Rwanda’s role in the conflict in DRC, whether minerals are a factor and if diplomacy can succeed.

The MONUSCO peacekeepers, part of one of the largest, longest, and most expensive in UN history, are unpopular with the local population. Its successes are barely measurable, Tshisekedi has ...

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Kenya has announced a virtual crisis summit, but Congolese state media says President Felix Tshisekedi will not attend.