The Congolese army called on deserters to rejoin their units on Thursday, as rogue soldiers fired guns and looted parts of the eastern town of Lubero after fleeing nearby clashes with advancing Rwandan-backed rebels.

Kokoko! make incandescent get-down music from Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). The city has long been a musical hotbed, nurturing pan-African jazz and giving birth to Congolese rumba—both of which are designed to get people pumped and moving.

Originally from the east of Democratic Republic of Congo, which is under attack from the M23 rebels and their Rwandan supporters, the president of the national assembly, Vital Kamerhe, promotes dialogue to restore peace.

The beheaded bodies of 70 Christians were found in a Protestant church in North Kivu Province in the Congo (DRC) around Feb. 15, several

International Criminal Court prosecutor Karim Khan urged armed groups in eastern Congo to abide by international law. Khan arrived in Kinshasa late Monday night for talks with Congolese officials.

Burundi troops -- allies of Kinshasa -- were still deploying Tuesday in east DR Congo, as the UK announced it was suspending most direct bilateral aid to Rwanda over an

Seventy Christians were discovered beheaded inside a Protestant church in the Democratic Republic of Congo s North Kivu Province, according to reports, which say the victims had been kidnapped by

R ulers of the Democratic Republic of Congo have rarely, if ever, fully controlled the east of Africa’s second-largest country. Kinshasa, its capital, is 1,500km from the provinces (South Kivu, North Kivu and Ituri) that border the other Great Lakes countries (Burundi,

The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) strongly condemned the looting of its warehouses in Bukavu, South Kivu, amid escalating violence in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC)

M23 seized Goma, the biggest city in eastern Congo, in late January and then took control of South Kivu provincial capital Bukavu over the weekend. "The Burundian troops are withdrawing from Democratic Republic of Congo.

Since January, however, the rapid conquest and occupation of a huge area of the Democratic Republic of Congo by Rwanda and the M23 rebel group it supports has raised concerns that the principle may now be endangered.