Dozens more people have been injured and many displaced in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo in recent clashes between the Congolese army and M23 fighters, local sources and NGOs told AFP Wednesday ...
Despite recent military gains, eastern DRC remains mired in conflict, mainly as a result of the M23 rebellion.
The Congolese army said some of the recovered towns have been occupied by rebels for months, including Ngungu, a key town in the Masisi territory that is near the North Kivu provincial capital, Goma.
The Congolese army says several towns that fell to armed groups in the eastern North Kivu and South Kivu provinces have been ...
President Paul Kagame of Rwanda has urged Congolese authorities to negotiate with a violent rebel group that has seized key ...
Leader of the M23 group says its rebellion in eastern DR Congo is a ‘defensive’ one, hopes for dialogue with Kinshasa. At least 38 dead and more than 100 missing after ferry carrying people ...
GOMA: Rwanda-backed M23 rebels on Friday moved closer to a key town in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, capturing a nearby area. The March 23 Movement, a militia supported by neighbouring Rwa ...
Sharing the same ethnicity as Mr Kagame, they hark back to their families’ flight from the genocide of 1994 in Rwanda, when at least half a million people, most of them Tutsis, were murdered by ...
My first big assignment as a journalist was covering President Jimmy Carter’s 1995 visit to Rwanda, a doomed mission that brought him little acclaim. Carter didn’t fight disease, promote ...
The Tutsi-led M23 have captured swathes of territory in North Kivu and in May DR Congo accused Rwanda of planning an attack on the regional capital Goma. More than one million people have been ...
They staged a large offensive in 2012 and took over the provincial capital of Goma near the border with Rwanda, the same city they are threatening again. The conflict has regional complications ...
A group of volunteers accompanied Santa to the Buhimba displaced persons camp, near Goma in North Kivu, where they cooked hundreds of meals. Families and children gathered around Santa Claus in ...