M23 rebels escort Romanian mercenaries to the border crossing into Rwanda in Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo, Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2025.

European fears about the U.S. pulling its troops from the continent have been brewing for some time, with the head of the Munich Security Conference, Christoph Heusgen, saying: "The U.S. will likely ...

Rwandan-backed M23 rebels who in late January captured Goma, the biggest city in eastern Congo, have since been advancing around one of Africa's great lakes, Lake Kivu, towards the second-biggest city ...

DRC has launched a plan for a green corridor at the world's largest protected area - but local people say they haven't been ...

Rwanda-backed rebels in eastern Congo claimed Friday that they have seized a second airport in the region following a ...

An offensive by M23 fighters is disrupting health services and displacing people in a region already beset by health ...

Creating sustainable peace in Congo requires giving justice to the victims of war crimes and preventing the illicit trade in ...

A rampaging rebel group has claimed the capture of another mining town in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of ...

Analysts say the deadly march by Rwanda-backed rebels across eastern Congo could widen into a regional conflict drawing in ...

February 06, 2025 The rebels of the March 23 Movement (M23) have called on the population of Goma, located in the east of the ...

Thirty years after the violence, a related border conflict escalates, with control of mineral wealth at stake.

The M23 group is the most potent of more than 100 armed groups vying for control in Congo's mineral-rich east, which holds vast deposits critical to much of the world's technology. Executions, rape as ...