With three neighbouring armies already on the ground, a conflict that ... airport in South Kivu. The airport is 40 km north of Bukavu, the second-largest city in eastern Congo.

Human rights group Amnesty International accused the M23 rebels in eastern Congo of killing, torturing and forcibly disappearing civilian detainees in two rebel-controlled cities.

Marcus Bachmann, Doctors Without Borders (MSF) head of programmes for South Kivu province, explains the situation in this part of eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) as the conflict evolves.

The latest conflict in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo has brought horrific violence and suffering to innocent ...

But the spreading conflict ... Goma on the Congo's eastern border. As of March 12 the insurgents were within 125 kilometres of the mine's location in Walikale District in North Kivu.

In a statement on Friday ... of North-Kivu . An M23 spokesperson told The Associated Press it denied the accusation, discrediting it as "propaganda" from Congo's government. Conflict displaces ...