Mass Killings in February Highlight Grave Risks to People in Occupied AreasThe Rwanda-backed M23 armed group summarily executed at least 21 civilians and most likely many more in Goma, eastern ...

Rebel group M23 have captured two more towns in North Kivu in eastern Democratic Republic ... accuses the Congolese army of bombing areas occupied by civilians. Kinshasa says that in Nyirangongo ...

of North Kivu said on Wednesday that it had reversed the decision, which would have considered all goods coming from Goma, Bunagana and Ishasha, areas occupied by the M23 rebels, as new imports ...

Near Goma in North Kivu, 13 peacekeepers have been killed ... Paul Kagame was canceled at the last minute. For a time, M23 rebels occupied the city of Kalembe, about 90 kilometers (55 miles ...

The M23 is opposed by Congolese ... small-boat travel between North and South Kivu on Lake Kivu. Two people in Minova told Human Rights Watch that since the M23 occupied the town, which is also ...

The M23 rebels took control of the North Kivu mining town a day after Félix Tshisekedi and Paul Kagame called for an ‘immediate and unconditional’ ceasefire. Here is a map and breakdown of the M23’s ...

The North Kivu Region with its capital ... of hostilities and atrocities perpetrated by M23 as well as unconditional withdrawal from all occupied positions. SADC further encourages all parties ...

The group's capture of most of Goma, the capital of North Kivu province ... In areas under M23 control in South Kivu, such as Minova, he said the group had "occupied schools and hospitals ...

It is about 80km (50 miles) north of the North Kivu provincial capital Goma, which the M23 briefly occupied in 2012. On Friday, the M23 captured the nearby town of Katale. Last year, there were ...

However, the M23 has perpetrated human rights violations among civilians, including Tutsis, when it occupied the provincial capital of Goma, North Kivu, in 2012. It took the joint action of the ...