Democratic Republic of Congo has freed an opposition leader and the president's former right-hand man, Jean-Marc Kabund, his ...

Rwanda-backed rebels have reached the center of east Congo’s second-largest city, Bukavu and are present in most parts of the city after little resistance from government forces.

Burundi is withdrawing its forces from eastern Democratic Republic of Congo where they had been fighting against M23 rebels, ...

This weekend, the group entered the gold-trading center of Bukavu in eastern Congo after government soldiers fled. By Elian Peltier and Justin Makangara Elian Peltier reported from Dakar ...

mostly settling in refugee camps in the North Kivu and South Kivu provinces. A small subset of those Rwandans who entered DRC were Hutu extremists who began organizing militias within the Congo.

GOMA, Congo — Panic swept through eastern Congo’s second-largest city on Saturday as residents fled by the thousands, scrambling to escape the looming advance of Rwanda-backed rebels.

The Congolese army, along with local Wazalendo fighters, has regained control of the city of Bukavu, the capital of South Kivu province, where the forces of the M23 rebel group had previously entered, ...

Rwandan-backed rebels have occupied a second major city in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC ... M23 rebels guard outside the South Kivu province administrative office in Bukavu.

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

UN agency says children as young as 12 are also being enlisted or coerced to join the fighting by armed groups. Analysts weigh in on Rwanda’s role in the conflict in DRC, whether minerals are a ...

Why rebels have seized two cities in troubled Congo - Here’s how we got here, and whether this could escalate further ...