KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — Congo’s senate has voted overwhelmingly to lift former President Joseph Kabila of his parliamentary immunity, paving the way for his prosecution over his alleged support of a rebel insurgency in the country’s east.

The U.N. refugee agency said it helped repatriate 360 Rwandan refugees, mostly women and children, as part of a broader plan to return about 2,000 people home.

Illegal logging has surged in the tropical forests of eastern Congo after falling into rebel hands earlier this year, stoking fears of widespread environmental damage, according to residents and environmentalists.

Tropical forests in eastern Congo that fell into rebel hands this year have seen a spike in illegal logging to produce charcoal and timber, residents and environmentalists said, raising fears of large-scale degradation.

Congolese authorities have accused Rwanda’s army and the M23 rebel group it backs of killing dozens and kidnapping thousands in the war-torn country’s east.

GOMA, Congo (AP) — Hundreds of Rwandan refugees who were living in eastern Congo since the 1994 genocide in Rwanda were repatriated on Saturday, the U.N. refugee agency said, after Rwandan ...

GOMA: Cash has become so scarce in Goma, the eastern Congolese city seized by anti-government fighters in January, that some parents are now paying school fees

Thabo Makwakwa WHAT was meant to be a straightforward troop withdrawal from Goma in the Democratic Republic of Congo has instead exposed a dangerous, unfolding crisis that highlights the potential military and diplomatic failures of South Africa’s efforts in the region.