The Congolese army called on deserters to rejoin their units on Thursday, as rogue soldiers fired guns and looted parts of ...

After the M23 Rwanda-backed rebels Feb. 16 occupied Bukavu, a second major city in mineral-rich eastern Congo, Catholic ...

Movement (M23) rebels have issued a temporary suspension of services for state employees and officials in the captured city ...

Interview - Marcus Bachmann, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) head of programmes for South Kivu province, explains the ...

Press Release - The Red Cross Society of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC Red Cross), the International Committee of ...

Local authorities and civil society leaders confirmed 2,500 prisoners escaped and there was widespread looting after M23 took ...

The Rwandan-backed rebels' entry into Bukavu follows their capture of Goma, defying international calls for a ceasefire.

Erasto Bahati Musanga, the rebel-appointed governor of North Kivu, announced that ports in Bukavu and Goma would reopen on Tuesday. Navigation on Lake Kivu, one of the largest lakes in Africa ...

Bukavu's fall, if confirmed, marks the armed group's most significant advance since it revived a decade-old insurgency in ...

The UN World Food Programme (WFP) has condemned the looting of thousands of tonnes of relief supplies in the city of Bukavu ...

On 14 February, the M23 rebels, backed by the Rwandan army, seized control of Kavumu Airport, located about 30 kilometres ...

In January and February 2025, Goma, the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo’s North Kivu province, and Bukavu, the second-largest city in the country, fell to the rebel armed group M23 ...