Since flag independence from Belgium on June 30, 1960 and since the gruesome murder of its founding president, Patrice ...

Clashes between the DRC army and M23 rebels near Goma have displaced over 400 000 people, sparking fears of a regional war, warns the UN.

Video shows M23 rebels and military vehicles just outside Kavumu airport north of Bukavu in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.

Burundi troops in Congo to counter M23 rebels Rwanda denies Congo presence, accuses Congo of aiding militias Ethnic tensions risk wider conflict in region NAIROBI, Jan 31 (Reuters) - (This Jan. 31 ...

NAIROBI - As Rwanda-backed M23 rebels in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo push south towards the city of Bukavu, they are likely to have to fight their way through thousands of troops from ...

(This Jan. 31 story has been corrected to fix the reference to troops in Congo to Burundian, not Rwandan, in paragraph 11) By David Lewis and Sonia Rolley NAIROBI (Reuters) - As Rwanda-backed M23 ...

Goma (AFP) – The Rwandan-backed armed group M23 moved south as it closed in on a key military airport in DR Congo on Friday, a day after pledging to take the capital Kinshasa and as ...

Earlier this week the Tutsi-led M23 rebels seized Goma, the largest city in the east of Democratic Republic of Congo which is home to lucrative gold, coltan and tin ore mines. They then shifted ...

Gunfire rang out across Goma as rebel group M23 marched into the Democratic Republic of Congo’s largest eastern city – in the worst escalation of a conflict lasting more than a decade. Before long ...

Tutsi rebels led by current Rwandan President Paul Kagame put an end to the killing, and many Hutu perpetrators fled across the border into Congo. The M23, or March 23 movement, refers to the date ...