The economy of the Democratic Republic of the Congo - a nation endowed with vast natural resource wealth - continues to perform poorly. Systemic corruption since independence in 1960, combined ...

Why have UN peacekeepers been in DR Congo for 65 years? Established by Security Council resolution 1279 (1999) of 30 November 1999. In accordance with Security Council resolution 1925 (2010), MONUC ...

The human rights situation across the Democratic Republic of Congo remains dire ... in the context of a special session of the UN Human Rights Council, an independent mandate to investigate ...

The UN issued urgent appeals to end the violence in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), where fighting between government forces and the M23 rebels has left at least 700 people dead and ...

More than 700 people have been killed and 2,800 injured in just five days since fighting escalated in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) between January 26-30, UN Secretary-General ...

As fighting between M23 rebels and Congolese armed troops escalate in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo ... while the United Nations and the United States classify it as an armed rebel ...

GOMA, Democratic ... The United Nations, including Security Council members such as the U.S., France and the United Kingdom, agree that Rwandan forces are operating in Congo.

Rebels in the Democratic Republic ... between their two armies in DR Congo would heighten fears the conflict could become a regional war - which the United Nations has already expressed concern ...

GOMA, Democratic Republic ... in the town of Nyabibwe, eastern Congo, 2012. The region, with its large reserves of wealth, offers other opportunities to the rebels. With the capture of Goma, the M23 ...

The Rwanda-backed rebels taking over territory in DR Congo have vowed to fight all the way to the capital.