The Rwandan-backed rebels' entry into Bukavu follows their capture of Goma, defying international calls for a ceasefire.
M23's rapid offensive in eastern Congo has rekindled tensions in the already fraught relationship between Rwanda and South ...
M23 fighters and Rwandan troops entered the DR Congo provincial capital of Bukavu on Friday, security and humanitarian ...
The UN reported in December that up to 4,000 Rwandan soldiers are fighting alongside the M23 against the Congolese army and ...
Why did the M23 militia capture the city of Goma which lies in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo? Does Rwanda have ...
Thirty years after the violence, a related border conflict escalates, with control of mineral wealth at stake.
Rwanda's government, meanwhile, has framed the conflict as the defense of ethnic Tutsis in eastern Congo from ethnic Hutu forces linked to the genocide in Rwanda three decades ago that killed some ...
The conflict in the eastern D.R.C. has roots in the 1994 Rwandan genocide, when Hutu extremists killed about one million Tutsis and moderate Hutus. Subsequently, two million Hutu refugees fled to ...