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.

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

African diplomacy is in high gear as leaders seek to stop the conflict in the DRC. As the rest of the world loudly cautions ...

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.

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

Rwanda-backed M23 pushes on in DR Congo The M-23 took Goma, the capital of North Kivu province after intense fighting earlier this week and has pushed further, vowing to march all the way to the ...

new video loaded: Why Is Violence Flaring Up in Mineral-Rich Congo? Rebels backed by Rwanda are seizing huge tracts of the Democratic Republic of Congo. The rebels, known as M23, say they are ...

which holds vast deposits critical to much of the world’s technology. They are backed by around 4,000 troops from neighboring Rwanda, according to U.N. experts, far more than in 2012 when they ...

GOMA, Congo (AP) — Rwanda-backed rebels were quickly expanding ... U.N. spokesman Stephane Dujarric said the World Health Organization and its partners conducted an assessment with Congo ...