Bukavu's fall, if confirmed, marks the armed group's most significant advance since it revived a decade-old insurgency in ...

Creating sustainable peace in Congo requires giving justice to the victims of war crimes and preventing the illicit trade in ...

The war erupting in the Democratic Republic of Congo has its roots in the Rwandan genocide and the bloodiest war of the 21st ...

The UN peacekeeping chief on Sunday called on M23 rebels to end their activities and leave the Democratic Republic of the Congo ... Saying the attacks on peacekeepers may constitute war crimes ...

UN PHOTO Large parts of Goma, in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, are now under ... be a milestone in Congolese history. It will be difficult for FARDC and its allies to launch a frontal ...

The M23's origins are tied to these tensions - it is the latest incarnation of a rebel group that says it is fighting for the interests of the minority Tutsi community in eastern DR Congo.

Protesters in Kinshasa, the capital of Democratic Republic of Congo, have been burning portraits of Rwanda's president and tearing up Rwandan flags as M23 rebels have taken control of most the ...

More than two dozen people were killed and hundreds injured in fighting between M23 rebels ... to leave Congo. While urging against violence, the government in Kinshasa alleged that attacks ...

The takeover of Goma is yet another territorial gain for the Alliance Fleuve Congo (AFC) rebel coalition, which includes the M23 armed group ... Leutwyler, the founder of the non-profit ...

A rebel militia known as M23 has seized ... because Eastern Congo harbors hundreds of people, known as genocidaires, suspected of being involved in Rwandan genocide. M23 was founded in 2012 ...

GOMA, Congo (AP ... Peace and Security Council demanded the M23 and other rebel groups “immediately and unconditionally withdraw and cease their attacks and permanently disband and lay ...

The mineral-rich east of the Democratic Republic of Congo has been dogged by conflict for more than 30 years, since the 1994 Rwandan genocide. Numerous armed groups have competed with the central ...