Hundreds of people rallied in Butembo, a city in Congo's North Kivu province to demand an end to war in their region. The march organized by civil society groups came as Goma, the provincial ...

Military court in Butembo set up as part of crackdown on soldiers fleeing M23 rebels as fighting rages in the east. DRC soldiers ride in a vehicle in Mirangi, close to the town of Kibirizi ...

Butembo and Uvira. They accused the 22-year-old mission of failing to stop decades of fighting in the country. The UN mission, however, has long been blamed for what should be the DRC government ...

The M23 rebels on Tuesday attacked all the main Congolese army positions on the road to Butembo, a city of 150,000 people, and the situation was rapidly deteriorating, said Auguste Kombi ...

Another prong moved north of Goma toward Butembo (population of 280,000 ... already started surfacing in Kisangani (in north central DRC) and Lubumbashi (in the south of the country) following ...

This article deals with the example of ‘Cha Bubo,’ spoken in the town of Butembo in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Rero: The word “rero” is in use everywhere. You hear phrases like “Rero!

In the DRC, more than 90% of the population relies ... some 99% of the population in the province’s major cities — Goma, Butembo and Beni — depend on wood for energy. In Goma alone, with ...

The president of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has commuted the death sentences of three Americans convicted of attempting a coup to life imprisonment, days before US government officials ...

Recent days have seen the DRC grapple with devastating floods that have killed at least 72 people and injured 170 more, with the capital, Kinshasa, bearing the brunt of the crisis. At least 5,000 ...

This week, M23 attacked all the main Congolese military positions on the road to Butembo, a city north of Goma, according to local reports. M23 has also said it has its sights on Kinshasa.