Around 700,000 people were forced to leave Goma, one of the biggest cities in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) when it fell in January to rebels, known as M23. With the conflict spreading, ...

Rwanda-backed rebels who captured eastern Congo’s major city of Goma have targeted relatives of fleeing Congolese soldiers.

All told 127 SA National Defence Force (SANDF) personnel are now back in South Africa receiving medical and other care ...

More than 7,000 people have died this year as Rwanda-backed M23 rebels have captured unprecedented amounts of territory in ...

M23 officials said they had trained up hundreds of administrators who were ready to deploy. "We are asking all Goma residents to go back to normal activities," said Corneille Nangaa, head of Alliance ...

"M23 has declared the airspace over Goma closed," she added. "In other words, we are trapped." She said the U.N. was temporarily relocating nonessential personnel from the city. Congo's foreign ...

M23 rebels, backed by Rwanda, claimed to have taken control of Goma, eastern Congo's largest city, early on Monday, while a 48-hour deadline for the Congolese army to surrender expired.

Creating sustainable peace in Congo requires giving justice to the victims of war crimes and preventing the illicit trade in ...

It’s cowardice,” Byamungu added. Unlike in 2012, when the M23 briefly seized Goma and withdrew after international pressure, ...

Burundi is withdrawing its forces from eastern Democratic Republic of Congo where they had been fighting against M23 rebels, ...

U.K. authorities are punishing Rwanda over its support of the rebels who now control two major cities in eastern Congo.

Rwanda-backed M23 rebels have entered east Congo’s second-largest city of Bukavu, residents and a community leader say ...