After a hike through highland forests, I snuck into eastern Congo and spent a week inside M23 territory, transiting its control area, visiting the frontlines, and interviewing prisoners. What I saw ...

GOMA, Democratic Republic of Congo - The M23 insurgents who routed Congo’s army to take control of the eastern part of one of Africa’s most populous nations now face a task as mundane as it is ...

GOMA, Democratic Republic of Congo - Hundreds of men and women sat in rows in a wooden hall listening to the leader of Congo’s M23 rebellion at the end of a two-week re-education programme. The rebel ...

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A Rwanda-backed armed group has seized large parts of eastern Congo, threatening a regional war and a deepening humanitarian crisis. By Elian Peltier Reporting from Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo.

The resurgence of the M23 (March 23 movement) rebel group has once again drawn global attention to the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). The humanitarian crisis—millions displaced, ...

Since the M23 rebels and Rwandan soldiers launched a large-scale offensive in the key eastern DRC city of Goma on 23 January, the Congolese army (FARDC) and its partners have struggled to halt their ...

(Nairobi) – The Rwanda-backed M23 armed group has unlawfully ordered tens of thousands of displaced people to leave the camps around Goma in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, Human Rights Watch ...

The M23 armed group and allied Rwandan forces launched a new offensive on Wednesday in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, days before the Rwandan and Congolese presidents are due to attend a ...

Lewis Mudge, Human Rights Watch’s Central Africa director, and Clémentine de Montjoye, senior Great Lakes researcher, traveled to Uvira, in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, in March 2026. They ...

The violence wrought by the Rwandan-backed rebel group M23 Movement is often narrowly framed as intended to control eastern Democratic Republic of Congo’s resource-rich mining sites. The rebel group ...