The head of the U.N. peacekeeping mission in Congo met with leaders of the Rwanda-backed rebel group M23 on Friday in Goma, ...

Rwanda has sent between 7,000 - 12,000 soldiers to eastern Congo to support M23, analysts and diplomats told Reuters. Rwanda denies providing arms and troops to M23 and says its forces are acting ...

The US wants Rwanda and Democratic Republic of Congo to sign a peace deal by July, according to a top State Department ...

The largest city in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC ... sign that M23’s patron, Rwanda, may be willing to use its strength to redraw the map of the region—and, in doing ...

When Rwanda-backed rebels seized control of eastern Congo’s strategic city of Goma this week, it prompted a flurry of declarations condemning Rwanda from the U.N. and western nations ...

Rwanda-backed rebels have "occupied" a second major city in mineral-rich eastern Congo, Congo's government said Sunday, as M23 rebels positioned themselves at the governor's office in Bukavu and ...

KIGALI, Rwanda — President Paul Kagame of Rwanda urged Congolese authorities Thursday to negotiate with a violent rebel group that has seized key towns in eastern Congo in recent days, widening ...

The government of Paul Kagame, Rwanda’s president, appears intent on rewriting Congo’s map by seizing land, and so far, beyond issuing reproofs, Western countries have barely mustered a response.

GOMA, Congo (AP) — Rwanda-backed rebels entered the outskirts of eastern Congo’s largest city, Goma, on Jan. 26, causing what the United Nations called “mass panic” among its 2 million peo ...

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GOMA, Congo (AP) — Rwanda-backed rebels claimed they captured eastern Congo’s largest city, Goma, early Monday, as the United Nations described a mass panic among its 2 million people and ...

Congo's government will participate in peace talks in Angola on Tuesday with the Rwanda-backed M23 rebel group that has captured key areas of Congo’s mineral-rich east, a spokesperson said Monday.