In eastern Congo, at least 10 people have been killed by extremist rebels linked to the Islamic State. The Allied Democratic Forces attacked a village in North Kivu province, prompting calls for expanded joint military operations with Uganda to counter the persistent violence in the region.

Benjamin Alongaboni, General Commissioner of the Congolese National Police has said in a press statement that with the current situation in the east of the country, if the supreme commander requests for any police support,

Lt. Col. Ndjike Kaiko Guillaume, the FARDC spokesperson for North Kivu province, announced the launch of “Operation Caterpillar 2,” an offensive aimed at dislodging M23 rebels from their positions across the province.

With Kagame indicating that relations with Tshisekedi have broken down amid an escalating M23 war, the future can't be bleaker.

At least 10 people were killed in eastern Congo by extremist rebels linked to the Islamic State group, a local official said Wednesday.

Rwanda backtracked Wednesday from an earlier claim that it had discovered its first oil reserves in Lake Kivu, saying it was still in an exploratory phase and looking for partners.

The Democratic Republic of Congo is mulling cutting diplomatic ties and ditching joint projects with Uganda over tweets by military chief Muhoozi Kainerugaba disparaging the country and threatening to invade it.

Rwandan President Paul Kagame has called on Congolese authorities to open negotiations with the M23 rebel group

The Congolese army says several towns that fell to armed groups in the eastern North Kivu and South Kivu provinces have been recaptured by government forces.

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is alarmed by the worsening violence in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), which has already displaced 237,000 people this year. Escalating clashes between non-state armed groups and the Congolese army in North and South Kivu provinces are intensifying one of the world’s most alarming yet under-reported humanitarian crises,

The group originated in the late 1990s in neighboring Uganda and became affiliated with ... abducted several more in another village in North Kivu.

On Sunday, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) announced the capture of four young men who allegedly admitted to receiving military training in Uganda under the coordination of Thomas Lubanga Dyilo,