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The U_S_ has condemned Rwanda’s support of the armed M23 group in eastern Congo, whose rebellion has caused the displacement of hundreds of thousands of people, and called on the rebel group to “cease hostilities.”

The United States on Saturday deplored growing violence by DR Congo's M23 rebels, saying the group's backers in Rwanda must remove sophisticated ground-to-air missiles that are threatening lives in the country's east.

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Experts and international bodies attribute elusive peace to the mineral wealth, whose illegal extraction thrives in chaos and lawlessness in eastern part of the country at the expense of the...

United Nations peacekeepers deployed in Haiti, including Sri Lankan soldiers, have fathered hundreds of babies with young mothers - sometimes through sexual violence - before abandoning them, reports a new study published this week. The study, published today on The Conversation, says that “girls as young as 11 were sexually abused and impregnated by peacekeepers and . . .

Photo Illustration by Luis G. Rendon/The Daily Beast/Getty/YouTubeWhen a former Navy SEAL with ties to a raft of Trumpworld figures landed in Haiti nearly a decade ago, his putative mission was to lead raid and rescue operations that would recover a missing American child. But by his own account, he did little work in that direction—and The Daily Beast has discovered he instead fell into a morass of the Caribbean state’s thorny politics, and into an unbelievable business deal: cont...

Given deterioration of the war situation in North Kivu, it is not certain that the Congolese and Rwandans will agree to sit down around a table for talks in Ethiopia.

Report from government pathologist Macharia revealed that Hakizimana died as a result of a head injury.

Kigali denies that it is supporting the rebels in a bid to control vast mineral resources

A bomb struck the airport in the restive eastern DR Congo city of Goma early Saturday as fighting flared between rebels and government forces, security and government sources told AFP. Clashes have intensified in recent days around the strategic town of Sake, about 20 kilometres (12 miles) from Goma, between the M23 rebel group – which Kinshasa says is backed by neighbouring Rwanda – and Congolese government forces. “Yes, it’s true, Goma airport was hit by a bomb last night,” a source ...