Rwanda-backed M23 rebels enter Bukavu, escalating conflict and causing displacement in eastern Congo amid ceasefire ...

The past three years have been turbulent for the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, a region that has experienced ...

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 ...

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is alarmed by the rapidly worsening humanitarian crisis in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) as the continued lack of access to displaced people hampers the ...

The U.N. says more than 110,000 displaced people have in recent days left settlement camps in eastern Congo’s cities ...

At a summit held in Tanzania, east and southern African leaders urged an "immediate and unconditional" ceasefire to armed conflict within five days in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.

Eastern DR Congo appeared calm for a second day Monday, after regional powers appealed for a ceasefire amid fears the ...

The M23 are the most potent of the more than 100 armed groups active in Congo’s east, which holds vast deposits critical to much of the world’s technology. Rwanda's president, Paul Kagame, asserted to ...

Hundreds of wounded people have poured into overcrowded hospitals in Goma after the M23 rebels say they captured the major city in eastern Congo last week ...

The mineral-rich east of the Democratic Republic of Congo has been dogged by conflict for more than 30 years, since the 1994 Rwandan genocide. Numerous armed groups have competed with the central ...

DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Rwanda-backed rebels have captured eastern Congo’s strategic city of Goma ... divided attention spans ...

They are one of more than 100 armed groups vying for control in Congo’s mineral-rich east, which holds vast deposits estimated to be worth 24 trillion dollars that are critical to much of the ...