DRC is a member of the SADC and the East Africa Community, or EAC, while Rwanda is an EAC member.

Approximately six million people have died in the conflict in the eastern D.R.C. since 1996. For decades, numerous armed ...

The M23, whose top brass are mostly Congolese Tutsi, began its insurgency more than three years ago after a decade of ...

The capture of Goma, the main city in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, last week by the M23 rebel group follows a three-year insurgency heavily supported by neighbouring Rwanda despite its ...

The World Health Organization said that at least 900 bodies were recovered from the streets of Goma as of last Friday ...

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The Rwanda-backed rebels who seized a major city in eastern Congo have declared a unilateral ceasefire, citing humanitarian ...

Rwanda-backed M23 rebels declare ceasefire in Goma, Congo, amid humanitarian crisis, as fighting displaces thousands and ...

NEWS ANALYSIS. The capture of Goma by the M23 rebel movement and Rwandan army forces has positioned Kigali as the dominant ...

A major offensive by Rwandan-backed M23 rebels in east Democratic Republic of Congo appeared to have stalled on Saturday ...

Congo and UN experts say neighbouring Rwanda, ruled by a Tutsi-led government, is backing M23. In 2012, shortly after it was founded, M23 seized much of Goma. But it withdrew as Rwanda came under ...

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