Movement, backed by Rwanda, now controls Goma and Bukavu—and the entire Kivu Lake region—by force. The rebel group is now ...

M23 Rebels Capture South Kivu’s Bukavu as Uganda Threatens Attack | Firstpost Africa | N18G Rwanda-backed M23 rebels have ...

NAIROBI (Reuters) -Uganda has deployed more than 1,000 extra soldiers into east Congo in the last week near an area where the Kinshasa government is fighting M23 rebels, four diplomatic and U.N.

The March 23 (M23) rebels in the Democratic Republic of Congo on Sunday night "liberated" (their word) Goma, the key city in the eastern part of the country and the capital of North Kivu province.

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

Rwanda-backed rebels who captured eastern Congo’s major city of Goma have targeted relatives of fleeing Congolese soldiers.

Lemarquis said non-essential staff in the DRC were being moved to Uganda. Lemarquis said the internet in Goma was cut on Monday, phone service was patchy and water and electricity had been disrupted.

A shifting political calculus by sponsors of the M23 rebel group risks triggering another war in the Great Lakes Region, ...

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

Uganda has been helping Congo fight the Islamist ... M23 rebels have been consolidating their hold on Goma and moving on Bukavu, a town some 200 km (125 miles) to the south. After meeting ...