creating an interim power vacuum exploited to the maximum by gangs of people who looted shops and warehouses. "We're there, we're there in Bukavu," M23 spokesman Willy Ngoma told the paper by phone.

The M23 portray themselves as freedom fighters ... of abuses by the rebels who they accuse of indiscriminate shelling, gang rape and summary executions. They level the same accusations at the ...

M23 rebels shot dead three children when they stormed into the city of Bukavu in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, the United Nations has said. The Rwanda-backed group captured the eastern ...

Feb. 20 (UPI) --The U.S. Treasury Department issued sanctions Thursday against figures related to M23 rebels in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The Treasury announced sanctions against Rwanda ...

Turk said in a statement on Tuesday that his office “confirmed cases of summary execution of children by M23 after they entered the city of Bukavu last week. We are also aware that children were ...

The Congo River Alliance, a group of rebel outfits including M23, said in a statement its fighters "decided to assist the population of Bukavu" in addressing its security challenges under the "old ...

On Sunday, M23 rebels captured the city of 1.3 million people after it was abandoned by Congolese forces. Bukavu lies 101 kilometers south of Goma, which was captured by the rebels in late January.

It was barely defended by the Congolese armed forces . The fall of the city of one million people gives the M23 total control of Lake Kivu, following its capture of Goma, capital of neighbouring ...

Rwandan-backed M23 rebels advanced on Sunday into the centre of Bukavu in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, meeting little resistance from government troops, witnesses and the armed group said ...

Burundi denies withdrawing troops from Congo amid M23 rebel conflict U.N. accuses M23 of executing children in eastern Congo Over 10,000 Congolese refugees crossed into Burundi Burundian troops ...