The country faces increasing land pressure due to rapid urban development, prompting engineers to advocate for stricter building-related laws that encourage vertical housing through building permits.

Fighting has escalated sharply in recent weeks in eastern Congo, where rebels have seized key towns and are closing in on the ...

Nine United Nations peacekeepers in eastern Congo sustained injuries during fighting with the M23 armed group, the U.N. said, ...

Tanzania's president said a sample tested positive for the Marburg virus, which has a fatality rate of up to 88 percent if untreated.

Nine UN peacekeepers were injured in clashes with the advancing M23 rebel group near Goma, eastern Congo. M23 has encircled ...

The ongoing conflict in Congo’s east involving the rebel group M23 poses a risk of escalating into a wider regional war, ...

The M23 rebel group's advance toward eastern Congo's largest city has displaced over 178,000 people in the past two weeks, ...

A leading bishop in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) says the situation in the conflict-hit eastern part of the country ...

Panic spread in Goma on Thursday, with M23 rebels steadily inching closer to the city in eastern Congo as they battle the Congolese ...