Rwandan-backed M23 rebels advanced on Sunday into the centre of Bukavu in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, meeting ...

PRETORIA, February 16. /TASS/. Extra units of the Rwanda-backed rebel March 23 Movement (M23) have been deployed to the city of Bukavu in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Okapi ...

Panic and looting are sweeping through eastern Congo’s second largest city as residents fled by the thousands to escape the ...

Residents and business owners in eastern Congo’s second largest city are sitting in wait after a night of loud gunfire marking the ongoing advance of Rwanda-backed rebels ...

(Reuters) - Congo authorities will put at least 75 soldiers ... continued to march south towards the capital of South Kivu, Bukavu. Last week, they seized control of the town of Nyabibwe, some ...

[Photo/Agencies] DAR ES SALAAM - African leaders on Saturday called for an "immediate ceasefire" in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC ... advancing toward Bukavu, the capital ...

The rebels - fighting government forces - have seized vast swathes of land in the eastern DR Congo, including the city of Goma. Their push towards Bukavu has raised fears of a wider regional war.

Nearly 3,000 people have been killed in the city of Goma in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, according to the ... toward the South Kivu capital of Bukavu. “In Bukavu, tensions are ...

Residents in the eastern city of Bukavu pray for peace as fighting with Rwandan backed rebels bereaks out with renewed intensity in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Federal prosecutors in N.Y ...

and Bukavu. Congo's Communications Minister Patrick Muyaya told Reuters rebels violated the ceasefire at night and were facing resistance from Congolese armed forces around Nyabibwe. Congo ...

The United Nations is also “gravely concerned” at losing Bukavu’s Kavumu airport, which is now used by Congo’s military, she said. Néné Bintou, president of the civil society of South ...

Tens of thousands of residents in eastern Congo’s largest city ... with M23 forces steadily heading south towards Bukavu, the capital of South Kivu province 120 miles (190km) from Goma.