Advanced machines will be deployed to map the lakebed in detail, identifying precise locations of oil and gas reserves. Potential Impact The discovery in Lake Kivu presents an opportunity to ...

For those living in Goma, which has been captured by Rwanda-backed rebels, there is little water, little food and much ...

Nearly 300 foreign mercenaries hired by the Democratic Republic of Congo government to counter a swift offensive by ...

Count northern Uganda in the days of Lord's Resistance Army; count Democratic Republic of Congo's Katanga/Shaba province, Kolwezi and more recently North Kivu province ... once mighty lake was the ...

One of the most heart-warming stories in Nigeria last week was that seven governors, only three of them from Nigeria, met in Maiduguri to push forward with concerted efforts to salvage the Lake Chad ...

The Sunday Mail EAC-SADC Summit THE Joint Summit of the Heads of State and Government of the East African Community (EAC) and ...

Goma is the capital of North Kivu province, fell into rebel hands last week. The capture of Nyabibwe on Lake Kivu brings the rebels a step closer to the provincial capital Bukavu some 70 kms south ...

Congolese authorities said its troops and its allies clashed with the M23 rebel group, supported by Rwandan soldiers, in the mining town of Nyabibwe in South Kivu. "Our positions have been attacked," ...

Rwanda's ally Uganda, unhappy about another rebel group in DR Congo that threatens its security, has also been accused of ...

Rwanda said Wednesday it had made its first oil discovery, with confirmation of 13 reservoirs in Lake Kivu, which makes up part of its border with DR Congo. "The good news is that we have oil ...

“Currently, the rebel troops are already in Nyabibwe, in the Kalehe area of South Kivu,” the observers say. "It is a mountainous peak and if you go down to the south you are 25 km from the shores of ...