General has called for peace in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The three-decade long conflict has escalated, after the M23 ...

The Rwanda-backed rebels who captured eastern Congo 's key city of Goma sought to reassure its residents Thursday, holding a ...

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

PRETORIA, February 6. /TASS/. Rebels from the M23 movement, supported by the Rwandan army, seized the town of Ihusi in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo near Bukavu, the administrative ...

Dawn broke over Lake Kivu with the sound of gunfire as M23 rebels seized control of Nyabibwe, shattering hopes raised by their recent ceasefire declaration. The strategic mining town fell after four ...

Rwandan-backed rebels are gaining ground in eastern Congo despite the unilateral ceasefire they declared earlier this week.

The M23 rebel group have captured the city of Goma in the eastern DRC in a major escalation of a drawn-out conflict.

NAIROBI (Reuters) -As Rwanda-backed M23 rebels in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo push south towards the city of Bukavu, ...

GOMA, Congo (AP) — Panic spread in eastern Congo’s main city on Thursday, with M23 rebels steadily inching closer to Goma and seizing a nearby town as they battle the Congolese army.

M23 seized Goma in 2012 and controlled it for over a week. As news of fighting spread, schools in Goma sent students home on Thursday morning. "We are told that the enemy wants to enter the city.

Even then the rebels did not hold as much ... backlash and more aid cuts if the M23 tried to take Goma again and push further south into Bukavu, the capital of the adjacent South Kivu province.