Local sources said Kigali-backed fighters were advancing on a new front and had seized two districts in South Kivu province, ...
Regional tensions spiral as peacekeepers killed in fighting following Rwandan-backed M23 rebel group offensive ...
M23 rebels, with support from Rwandan troops, marched into Goma earlier this week and are now advancing south toward Bukavu.
The Rwanda-backed armed group M23 vowed Thursday to "continue the march of liberation" to the DR Congo capital Kinshasa, as its fighters made further advances in the mineral-rich east of the country.
“Goma is a strategic and highly symbolic city with an international airport, as well as proximity to Rwanda and Lake Kivu, opening the easy path with South Kivu,” he said. But, most ...
The resource-rich eastern provinces of North and South Kivu have been plagued by conflicts for three decades, with the Rwanda-backed M23 emerging as one of the most powerful armed groups in ...
France's Foreign Ministry said that Congo's territorial integrity was "not negotiable" after Rwanda-backed M23 rebels took the eastern city of Goma. M23 rebels said they would march "all the way to ...
In 2012, when M23 rebels appeared poised to seize control of a major city in eastern Congo, western countries suspended aid ...