Eastern Congo

The United Nations in its recent investigations on Wednesday says that they had been unable to find evidence of direct support by the Islamic State for an Islamist militia in eastern Congo, which was blacklisted in March by Washington as a…

The politicians of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC)P voted to extend martial law in the restive east of the country for 15 days, a month after they replaced civilian authorities with military administrations in North Kivu and…

The Kivu Security Tracker (KST) research group said on Monday that at least 50 people were killed overnight in two attacks on villages in eastern Congo, in potentially the worst night of violence the area has seen in at least four years.…

A female peacekeeper from Malawi was killed in an attack by an Islamist militia in eastern Congo’s North Kivu province on Monday morning, the UN and the Malawian government said. A local civil rights group said separately that fighters…

Congolese police fired live rounds on Thursday to disperse protesters demanding the departure of the United Nations peacekeeping mission from the city of Beni, its mayor and witnesses said. Hundreds of youths have been protesting in…