Panic and looting sweep through eastern Congo’s second-largest city as residents flee by the thousands to escape the advance ...

Rwanda-backed rebels captured a second major strategic city in the Democratic Republic of Congo, expanding their dominance ...

M23’s rapid offensive in eastern Congo has rekindled tensions in the already fraught relationship between Rwanda and South Africa.

The 50-minute morning session was the only scheduled on-track time before qualifying Wednesday night, when the front row will be set for “The Great American Race.” ...

African diplomacy is in high gear as leaders seek to stop the conflict in the DRC. As the rest of the world loudly cautions ...

The body of water formerly known in the United States as the Gulf of Mexico is now listed for U.S.-based users of Google Maps as the Gulf of America.

By Ashoka Mukpo On Jan. 28, the Rwanda-backed rebel group M23 captured Goma, capital city of the Democratic Republic of Congo’s mineral-rich North Kivu province. The fall of Goma marks a shocking ...

M23 now controls nearly all of North Kivu and the province’s vast mineral wealth—including tin (cassiterite), tantalum ...

which holds vast deposits critical to much of the world’s technology. They are backed by around 4,000 troops from neighboring Rwanda, according to U.N. experts, far more than in 2012 ...