WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States moved to block military assistance to five countries, including three in Africa, over their use of child soldiers in armed conflicts, U.S. officials said on ...

GOMA, Congo (AP) — The Rwanda-backed rebels who captured eastern Congo's major city of Goma have targeted relatives of fleeing Congolese soldiers, the families say, with the troops' wives chased from ...

It is a few minutes past noon on Wednesday, April 30 when we are cleared into the Mutobo Demobilisation Centre, nestled in Rwanda’s Musanze District in the Northern Province. This facility, run by the ...

Over 7,000 dead. Hundreds raped. Displaced people’s camps flattened. City centers looted. Prisons set ablaze. Businesses bankrupted. Nearly 5 million people on the move. The latest conflict in the ...

UNITED NATIONS — A U.N. Security Council panel said Friday that Rwanda and Congo are fighting a proxy war by aiding each other's enemies, a conclusion that could lead to additional U.N. sanctions over ...

KINSHASA, Congo -- Boys and girls are being recruited in record numbers to act as soldiers, spies and sex slaves in Congo, international charity Save the Children says. The group also said children ...

Rwanda-backed rebels who captured eastern Congo’s major city of Goma have targeted relatives of fleeing Congolese soldiers. GOMA, Congo — The Rwanda-backed rebels who captured eastern Congo's major ...