M23 rebels have made rapid advances in the latest bout of conflict that has long-dogged the mineral-rich east.

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

GOMA, Congo (AP) — Rwanda-backed rebels gained ground in eastern Congo on Wednesday despite the unilateral ceasefire they ...

Nearly 3,000 people were killed over the last week as rebels captured a key city in one of the deadliest battles in the ...

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Risk of more armed actors. Eastern Congo in recent decades has been the setting for a conflict that has caused the highest death toll since World War II. Its last major regional upheaval broke out ...

Burundi troops in Congo to counter M23 rebels Rwanda denies ... Under the peace deal that ended Burundi's 1993-2005 civil war, which killed 300,000 people, its military put in place an ethnic ...

The conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is once again in the ... In the early 1990s, the DRC saw a spillover of civil war and subsequent genocide in neighbouring Rwanda.

as the United Nations described a mass panic among its 2 million people and Congo’s government said the rebel advance was a “declaration of war.” The M23 rebels announced the city’s ...