The Rwandan-backed armed group M23 moved south as it closed in on a key military airport in DR Congo on Friday, a day after ...

Congolese President, Félix Tshisekedi, has said he will not concede defeat to the Rwandan-backed M23 rebels, who have seized control of most of the major city of Goma in eastern Congo.Tshisekedi, ...

The fall of Goma in North Kivu marks a temporary low point in eastern DRC’s decades-long turmoil.

Close to 300 foreign mercenaries surrendered to UN peacekeeping forces after being contracted by the Democratic Republic of ...

Rwandan-backed M23 fighters captured Goma. It's an advance that could escalate an already deeply divided region.

In 2012, when M23 rebels appeared poised to seize control of a major city in eastern Congo, western countries suspended aid ...

Parts of the Democratic Republic of the Congo are under siege by a Rwanda-backed rebel group. The violence has killed UN peacekeepers, overwhelmed hospitals, displaced hundreds of thousands and ...

The rebel leader whose fighters have captured Goma, the biggest city in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, has vowed to continue their offensive all the way to the capital, Kinshasa. Corneille ...

South Africa often uses its diplomatic heft to position itself as defender of the "global south" on the world stage, but the ...

Democratic Republic of Congo President Felix Tshisekedi has vowed “a vigorous and coordinated response” against a rebel alliance that has besieged swathes of the nation’s mineral-rich east and ...