The M23 has continued to gain ground in eastern DR Congo and last month seized the region's second-biggest city, Bukavu.

The heavily armed rebels do not act alone. They are backed by neighbouring Rwanda, according to the UN and the US. Rwanda ...

Businesses are struggling to survive, financial transactions are almost impossible, and people are having trouble making ends ...

Direct peace talks between AFC/M23 rebels and the Congolese government are set to start in Luanda, on March 18, Angola's ...

The UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and partners in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) are providing lifesaving ...

Six weeks after Rwanda-backed rebels captured the eastern Congolese cities of Goma and Bukavu, the region is facing a setback ...

The DR Congo government - more than 1,500km ... By then rebel fighters were in parts of the city, having entered at around 08:00. Goma was falling. The women did not seem to matter - in or ...

"People were dying in front of our eyes. I couldn't count them. We tried to revive them by giving them water. Some women were ...

(Nairobi) – The Rwanda-backed M23 armed group has unlawfully ordered tens of thousands of displaced people to leave the camps around Goma in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, Human Rights ...

Idengo, who was a critic of all sides in the conflict, was among hundreds of inmates who escaped from a prison in Goma, after the militants seized the city last month. The east of DR Congo has ...

They had walked into the city from Goma, the region's major city ... of more than 100 armed groups vying for control of DR Congo’s mineral-rich east, and are supported by some 4,000 troops ...