A three-year insurgency in Democratic Republic of Congo's mineral-rich east has intensified since the start of this year, ...
In Goma, Eastern DRC, the Rwanda-backed M23 rebels advanced rapidly, leading to massive civilian displacement and grounding of flights. With tensions escalating, the UN Security Council held an urgent ...
Weaknesses within the Congolese army, as well as backing from Rwanda are aiding the fighters of the M23, according to experts, who have not ruled out an offensive on Goma, at the heart of the ...
On Thursday, fighting raged between rebels from the Rwanda-backed M23 group and Congolese forces in the town of Saké, the last major army position before Goma, a provincial capital with more than ...
The UN chief Antonio Guterres said Rwanda was backing M23 rebels as they advance towards the city of Goma in the Democratic ...
Rwandan diplomats say their army is not deployed in the DRC, but if it was it would be to protect the Congolese Tutsi community and their own borders against the rebel Forces Démocratiques de ...
The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is severing diplomatic ties with Rwanda and the United Nations Security Council ...
Three U.N. peacekeepers from South Africa have been killed in fighting M23 rebels in eastern Congo, a political party and a trade union said Saturday. The peacekeepers were killed on Thursday. M23 has ...