Kinshasa (AFP) – The Rwanda-backed M23 armed group cautiously welcomed Thursday the prospect of direct negotiations with the Congolese government to end the conflict in the volatile eastern ...

Picture: Camille Laffont / AFP KINSHASA, DR CONGO - The Rwanda-backed M23 armed group on Thursday said it "welcomed" the prospect of negotiations with the Congolese government to end the conflict ...

Brussels has been leading calls for European nations to sanction Rwanda over its support for the M23, a rebel group at the centre of DR Congo's crisis. The authorities in Kigali, Rwanda's capital ...

M23 took the two biggest cities in eastern Congo earlier this year after Angolan-mediated talks between Rwanda and Congo broke down. The conflict has displaced a million people and killed thousands.

Rwanda denies providing the M23 with military support. But a UN experts' report found Kigali maintains around 4,000 troops in the DRC's east to assist the armed group.

The M23 has seized swathes of the DRC's mineral-rich east - Copyright AFP Mandel NGAN The M23 has seized swathes of the DRC's mineral-rich east - Copyright AFP Mandel ...

The Rwanda-backed M23 armed group cautiously welcomed Thursday the prospect of direct negotiations with the Congolese government to end the conflict in the volatile eastern Democratic Republic of ...