It lasted only six months but set the stage for the Second Congo War, which spanned roughly four years and eventually killed more than 3 million people. A peace agreement finally arrived in 2002 ...

District Old Bill Dion Slabbert read an emotional poem by James Edmonds from 1919, “When you go home, tell them of us and say ...

Soldiers hunted his family as the bloodshed of the second Congo war reached its peak. Now Queensland’s fastest 15-year-old hopes to honour the nation that saved them by sprinting for Australia ...

By some estimates, the Second Congo War (1998-2003) caused more than 350,000 violent deaths and upwards of five million excess civilian deaths. Even if the real number is only half that much ...

GOMA, Congo (AP) — For Nelly Shukuru ... “All around us there is war, and the number of people facing difficulty is increasing daily,” said Innocent Ntamuheza, a psychologist with Action ...

This is the second Ebola outbreak in DR Congo this year. The previous outbreak, in the west of the country, killed 33 people, according to the government. Africa Live: Real-time news updates from ...

The involvement of better-equipped Rwandan forces, with U.N. experts estimating up to 4,000 of them in Congo, has led to talk of war by Congo's government. A July truce brokered by the United ...

GOMA, Congo (AP) — For Nelly Shukuru, there was no way out ... psychologists say. “All around us there is war, and the number of people facing difficulty is increasing daily,” said Innocent Ntamuheza, ...