See 12 of the week’s most interesting images from around the world, as selected by Washington Post photo editors.

On the streets I once walked and drove down daily, near the shopping centre where I bought my groceries, dead bodies lay ...

Several groups of artists gathered this Wednesday in Dakar to paint a mural and denounce the violence between the armed group ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Plumes of smoke rise daily from the crater of Mount Nyiragongo, a volcano in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Analysis - Apart from the heavy human cost, the return of hybrid warfare to the Democratic Republic of the Congo risks stability on the continent.

Storyline: As senior officials from east and south African nations gathered in Tanzania on Friday for a joint summit to ...

A rampaging rebel group has claimed the capture of another mining town in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of ...

Creating sustainable peace in Congo requires giving justice to the victims of war crimes and preventing the illicit trade in ...

A senior U.N. official in the Democratic Republic of Congo said Wednesday that nearly 3,000 people have been killed in a ...

The U.N. says more than 110,000 displaced people have in recent days left settlement camps in eastern Congo’s cities ...

Thousands of families have been displaced by violence in eastern Congo, where Rwanda-backed rebels last month seized the key ...