It is a major test of the court's ability to mediate major interstate conflicts within its jurisdiction, now in real time.

In Goma, people are still suffering in the aftermath of the recent fighting between the M23 rebels and the Congolese army. A ...

Tens of thousands of IDPs are leaving and routine is tentatively returning, as residents hope for peace despite crisis.

Congo’s leader has called on young people to enlist in the army to help fight Rwanda-backed rebels attempting to seize more ...

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

M23, which is made up of ethnic Tutsis, say they are fighting for minority rights, while DR Congo's government says the ...

Hundreds of wounded people have poured into overcrowded hospitals in Goma after the M23 rebels say they captured the major ...

The M23 rebel group is advancing towards another major city in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, a leading UN ...

In the Democratic Republic of Congo, widow Francine Nsengiyumva and her children are among many displaced from Goma when M23 ...

Widow Francine Nsengiyumva and her three children have little to eat and sleep on the hard ground, but like many others at a ...

A glimpse of life after the siege in the eastern Congolese city of Goma, as some semblance of a tenuous peace returns, as does the fear of reprisals.