Why are the rebels, known as M23, grabbing parts of eastern Congo? In their telling, they’re protecting ethnic Tutsis, the minority group massacred in a 1994 genocide, some of whom also live in ...

The Democratic Republic of Congo is in turmoil - fighters from the notorious M23 rebel group have been ... Their battle was enmeshed with the 1994 genocide, when Hutu extremists killed 800,000 ...

The M23 rebels have resumed attacks on armed forces in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo after a two-day lull in fighting. Rebel fighters struck at dawn on Tuesday near the village of Ihusi ...

Well trained and professionally armed, M23 is the latest in a long line of Tutsi-led rebel movements to emerge in Congo's volatile eastern borderlands in the wake of two successive wars stemming from ...

The M23 rebels ... up to 4,000 Rwandan forces in Congo. Rwanda has accused Congo of enlisting Hutu rebels and former militiamen whom it blames for the 1994 genocide. The East African Community ...

His government denies supporting M23 ... Rwandan forces in Congo. Rwanda has accused Congo of enlisting Hutu rebels and former militiamen whom it blames for the 1994 genocide.

Congo's Bukavu Under Threat as M23 Rebels Warn of Intervention (Reuters) - Rwandan-backed M23 rebels in the Democratic Republic of Congo threatened on Tuesday to advance on the provincial capital ...

as the United Nations described a mass panic among its 2 million people and Congo’s government said the rebel advance was a “declaration of war." The M23 rebels announced the city's capture in ...

The M23 armed group and allied Rwandan forces launched a new offensive on Wednesday in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, days before the Rwandan and Congolese presidents are due to attend ...

In late January, the M23 rebels captured Goma ... rooted in the long fallout from the 1994 Rwandan genocide and the struggle for control of Congo’s mineral resources. The well-equipped M23 ...

In mid-December, peace talks between Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC ... hostilities and demanded M23 disarm. Rwanda and its neighbors since the genocide.