For months, the capital of Tanganyika, a province bordering South Kivu, feared the arrival of M23 rebels and their Rwandan ...

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A United Nations report says Rwanda provided critical support to the M23 rebels who seized key cities earlier this year in ...

President Paul Kagame has reiterated Rwanda’s commitment to self-reliance and national sovereignty, noting that the country cannot depend on the shifting interests of external powers. Speaking to ...

President Paul Kagame of Rwanda said he was “thankful” for U.S. mediation in his country’s conflict with neighboring Congo following last week’s agreement in Washington, but warned that its success ...

M23 is one of about 100 armed groups that have been vying for a foothold in mineral-rich eastern Congo near the border with ...

The decades-long conflict in eastern Congo escalated in January, when the Rwanda-backed M23 advanced and seized the strategic city of Goma in North Kivu province, followed by Bukavu in February.

After M23 fighters seized Bukavu in February, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk said his office had “confirmed cases of summary execution of children by M23 after they ...

Red Cross escorts more than 1,300 DR Congo soldiers out of rebel city M23, which UN experts have said is aided by Rwanda, took over Goma in January in the latest surge in the decades-old conflict ...

Bukavu is 1,000 miles from the capital, Kinshasa, and many of its outlying areas are unreachable by road. That, plus lush geography, allows illicit mineral trades to flourish.

A building damaged by fire is shown on a street in Bukavu, Democratic Republic of Congo, on Thursday. The Rwandan-backed rebel group M23 has swept into Bukavu, taking control of the city with a ...

Rebels from the M23, backed by the Rwandan army, continue to advance in South Kivu drawing closer to the Burundian border, where troops sent by President Évariste Ndayishimiye have gradually retreated ...