M23 rebels are entrenched just six miles away. “My husband was killed,” says Aline Batachoka, a fresh arrival huddled together with other young women for warmth. “There was war and massacres.” ...

The embassies of Rwanda, Uganda, France and Belgium were also targeted on Tuesday amid an offensive by the M23 rebels in the country's east and growing unrest in the West African nation.

Bertrand Bisimwa, the AFC/M23 rebellion’s deputy coordinator, has once again denounced the Congolese government’s endless targeting and killing of unarmed Banyamulenge civilians in Minembwe ...

Many militias have origins in specific local communities. After years of lying dormant, the M23 relaunched its rebellion in North Kivu in late 2021, capturing territory including a key border ...

Unhappy with their position in the Congolese military, and claiming that government agreements had not been honoured, ex-CNDP operatives launched the first M23 rebellion in April 2012. They took ...

Since 2022, the M23 rebel group has been embroiled in a conflict with the army that has displaced nearly two million people. Kinshasa and the United Nations accuse Rwanda of supporting M23 with tr ...

The city’s capture and M23’s advances towards Bukavu in South Kivu mark a drastic escalation of the rebellion since peace talks collapsed under the Luanda and Nairobi processes – with ...

Rwanda’s desire to protect its own interests against Uganda is the main cause of the M23 rebellion’s most recent resurgence in eastern DR Congo, two New York University-linked research groups said in ...

Tshisekedi, ex-president Kabila once had power-sharing deal Kabila reportedly now very critical of Tshisekedi in private Ex-president breaks silence on M23 rebellion in media Rwanda-backed group ...

The M23 movement said in a statement that it had "decided from this day to end its rebellion" and instead to pursue its goals "through purely political means." The move ended an 18-month insurgency ...

The M23 rebellion stems partly from Rwanda’s decades-long concern that other rebels–ethnic Hutus opposed to Rwanda’s government and accused of participating in Rwanda’s 1994 genocide ...