The M23 rebels entered the city's Kazingu and Bagira zone and were advancing toward the center of the city of about 1.3 ...

GOMA, Congo (AP) — Rwanda-backed M23 rebels have entered east Congo’s second-largest city of Bukavu, residents and a community leader say.

M23 rebels escort Romanian mercenaries to the border crossing into Rwanda in Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo, Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2025.

Rwanda-backed rebels in eastern Congo claimed Friday that they have seized a second airport in the region following a ...

The conflict in eastern Democratic Republic Congo (DRC) is dominating international headlines as the UN Human Rights Council prepares to discuss the situation at the end of the week. Dreadful details ...

History will judge leaders in Africa who fail to end the conflict in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, President Samia Suluhu Hassan of Tanzania warned her counterparts at the start of ...

Is it too late, asked Le Pays (Ouagadougou): have we "reached the point of no return" for another catastrophic conflict in ...

Rwanda has economic as well as security interests. Kigali denies UN evidence that it smuggles vast amounts of gold and other ...

The U.N.’s top human rights body is holding an urgent session on spiralling violence in eastern Congo, where Rwanda-backed rebels recently captured a major city.

The UN experts map a circuitous route showing how it is transported to close to the Rwandan border. It is then transferred to "heavy-duty trucks" that needed the road to be widened in order to ...

Thirty years after the violence, a related border conflict escalates, with control of mineral wealth at stake.

M23 now controls nearly all of North Kivu and the province’s vast mineral wealth—including tin (cassiterite), tantalum ...