Since January, however, the rapid conquest and occupation of a huge area of the Democratic Republic of Congo by Rwanda and ...

A new overarching foreign policy priority has come into focus as President DONALD TRUMP looks to resolve global conflicts: boosting U.S. access to critical minerals.

With an economy under IMF supervision, public frustration with political elites and a deeply polarised landscape, Ghana ...

The latest conflict in eastern Congo has exposed endemic weaknesses in the country’s military, long known for corruption, extortion and abuse.

The M23 rebels' rapid advance is the latest chapter in eastern DR Congo's long history of instability. DW breaks down the key factors behind the ongoing turmoil.

As Rwanda-backed rebels closed in on eastern Congo's largest city, retreating army soldiers barged into Suzanne Amisi Wilonja ...

A conflict that has simmered in Democratic Republic of Congo’s eastern borderlands for years is set to erupt into a wider ...

Several reports accused the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria in the Democratic Republic of Congo, also known as the Allied Democratic Forces, of carrying out the attack. The ADF is an armed group ...

The Central African Copper Bonanza by Timo Särkkä analyses the Western colonial origins of the mining industry and its ...

Rwanda has a long history of military intervention inside Congo. It and Uganda invaded in 1996 and 1998, claiming they were defending themselves against local militia groups and going after the ...