Rwandan-backed M23 rebels appeared on Friday to be closing in on eastern Democratic Republic of Congo's second-largest city, ...

Rwandan-backed M23 rebels who in late January captured Goma, the biggest city in eastern Congo, have since been advancing around one of Africa's great lakes, Lake Kivu, towards the second-biggest city ...

An offensive by M23 fighters is disrupting health services and displacing people in a region already beset by health ...

Apart from the heavy human cost, the return of hybrid warfare to the Democratic Republic of the Congo risks stability on the ...

The U.N. says more than 110,000 displaced people have in recent days left settlement camps in eastern Congo’s cities ...

Analysts say the deadly march by Rwanda-backed rebels across eastern Congo could widen into a regional conflict drawing in ...

Days after the East African Community (EAC) met over the escalating conflict in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) , leaders from the Southern African Development Community (SADC) also ...

With over 105 million people, the DR Congo is a mosaic of 250 ethnic groups and 700 languages, a testament to its rich cultural diversity. However, in the eastern provinces of North and South Kivu, ...

In tonight's edition: Calm returns to DR Congo's eastern city of Goma as M23 rebels advance south. Also, the Southern African Development Community holds a special meeting in Zimbabwe to discuss ...

GOMA, DR Congo - The Rwandan-backed armed group M23 moved south as it closed in ... interest is to eradicate fighters linked to the 1994 genocide but is accused of seeking to profit from the ...

The conflict is a legacy of multistate wars that played out in Congo after the 1994 Rwandan genocide ... border into M23-controlled territory for years. Rwanda has also deployed high-tech military ...

The mineral-rich east of the Democratic Republic of Congo has been dogged by conflict for more than 30 years, since the 1994 Rwandan genocide ... fighters from the M23 rebel group have captured ...