In Congo, more than 7 million people are internally displaced, including over 5 million in the eastern regions.

The governor of eastern Congo's North Kivu province has died from injuries sustained during fighting on the front line, authorities said Friday, as M23 rebels closed in on the provincial capital.

On Friday, the rebel Congo River Alliance (AFC), which includes M23, said they planned to take Goma. The U.N. peacekeeping mission in Congo, MONUSCO, said that its heavy artillery had carried out fire ...

Congo and the M23 rebel group on Saturday pledged to sign a peace agreement by Aug. 18, a sign of progress even as outstanding details need to be negotiated. Representatives for both sides were at ...

Civilians carry their belongings as they flee after heavy gunfire that raised fears of M23 rebels advancing along a road from Sake, near Goma, in the North Kivu province of the Democratic Republic ...

Panic spread in eastern Congo’s main city on Thursday, with M23 rebels steadily inching closer to Goma and seizing a nearby town as they battle the Congolese army.

The Rwanda-backed M23 militia executed at least 21 civilians, and probably many more, in a two-day killing spree that began within weeks of its capture of the Congolese city of Goma in January, a ...

GOMA, Congo (AP) — Panic spread in eastern Congo’s main city on Thursday, with M23 rebels steadily inching closer to Goma and seizing a nearby town as they battle the Congolese army. Bombs were ...

BENI, Congo (AP) — Congo’s military on Thursday accused the M23 rebels of breaching a cease-fire, saying that they killed at least 50 people in a massacre earlier this week and warning that ...

M23 rebels in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo have taken control of Rubaya, a key mining town for the smartphone mineral coltan, following days of intense fighting, a rebel spokesman said.