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Letter: Margaret Owen describes the county’s unemployment crisis, brutal suppression of opposition and unlawful invasion into neighbouring DRC

The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) joined the East African Community in 2022. This will offer the country, which has immense natural wealth, a huge market in neighbouring countries and direct access to new roads, railways and ports – and therefore potential global trade.

The attack on a Uganda-DRC border town has left residents in mourning and their Muslim neighbours scared of reprisals.

For 30 years, the Democratic Republic of Congo has suffered from communal violence, armed conflict and insecurity. Diverse actors have tried to stop it but conflict has intensified, particularly in the eastern provinces of North Kivu, South Kivu, Ituri and Tanganyika. Regular armed forces and non-state armed groups have been…

Ugandan police say they have arrested 20 suspects believed of involvement in last Friday's school attack that killed 42 people, mostly students, in the country's west.

Uganda reels from its deadliest attack in more than 10 years after a rebel group killed 41 civilians, mostly students.

Ugandan forces launch ‘hot pursuit’ as they blame the ISIL-linked ADF for the deadly attack near DRC border.

The group says that M23’s killings and rapes in eastern DRC are bolstered by the military support of Rwandan officials.

At least 46 people, half of them children, were killed in a militia attack on a camp for displaced people in northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).

The top United Nations official Jean-Pierre Lacroix ended his visit to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) on Wednesday saying that the peacekeepers should withdraw from the conflict-torn country "as quickly as possible".

Taxpayer’s money also going to companies found to be flouting human rights in Kenya and DRC, says Commons committee