A new report by Human Rights Watch says that the M23 rebel group in eastern DR Congo has forcibly deported over 1,500 people to Rwanda. The act, allegedly backed by Rwanda, could constitute a war ...

M23 is the most powerful of the roughly 100 armed groups fighting for control in the country’s east, which holds valuable mineral deposits that are critical to much of the world’s technology.

Nairobi — Rwanda as Occupying Force May be Responsible for War Crimes The Rwandan-controlled M23 armed group has deported over 1,500 people from occupied eastern Democratic Republic of Congo to ...

M23 rebels in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) have committed serious abuses against civilians, “including torture, killings and enforced disappearances”, in areas under ...

The Rwandan-backed March 23 Movement (M23) has carried out killings, torture, and enforced disappearances, held individuals hostage, and subjected detainees to inhumane conditions at detention ...

Africa Amnesty International accuses M23 of killing, torturing civilian hostages in DRC ‘They brutally punish those who they believe oppose them and intimidate others,’ says rights group ...

Fighting in eastern Congo escalated this year as M23 staged an advance that saw it seize the region's two largest cities, raising fears of a wider regional war. Sign up here. African leaders along ...

KINSHASA: The Rwanda-backed M23 militia has carried out "mass killings" of Congolese civilians in the occupied eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, Human Rights Watch (HRW) warned on Tuesday.

GOMA, Congo (AP) — The head of the U.N. peacekeeping mission in Congo met with leaders of the Rwanda-backed rebel group M23 on Friday in Goma, in her first visit ...

It was like he was a member of a band of bandits. [M23] were asking him where he kept the weapons and where is so and so. They shot him in the stomach and the right arm, like in the shoulder.” Another ...

Shortly after, the student wore a new T-shirt in protest of the restrictions on the first. It read, “There Are CENSORED Genders.” The school also forbade the student to wear that T-shirt in class.

Qatar has presented a draft peace proposal to the Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda-backed M23 rebels following months of mediation in Doha. But from Kinshasa, progress looks slow and uncertain.