The leader of the rebels who captured two key cities in eastern Congo tells The Associated Press that international sanctions ...

There have been several attempts to resolve the spiralling conflict, rooted in the fallout from Rwanda's 1994 genocide and ...

(Reuters) -Rwanda-backed M23 rebels staging an offensive in east Congo will reposition their forces from the town of Walikale ...

The Rwanda-backed M23 has said it is committed to a ceasefire in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo despite its capture ...

The leader of Rwandan-backed M23 rebels in eastern Congo said on Thursday that a call by Kinshasa and Kigali for an immediate ...

Rwanda-backed rebels battling Congo’s army have pushed into a strategic, mineral-rich town in the east, ignoring calls for a ...

The M23 militia is ruling over a vast stretch of territory in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of Congo, ...

that the border with Rwanda should close at 3pm. The new M23 administration extended the business hours to 10pm. The effect, however, is beyond Congo’s borders. This week, Uganda said it was closing ...

The Rwanda-backed rebel group M23 has seized swathes of mineral-rich eastern Congo since the start of the year. "M23 has taken Nyabiondo since 11 a.m. (0900 GMT), following clashes," Kipanda Biiri ...

Nangaa is a leader in the Congo River Alliance (AFC ... swathes of territory in North Kivu, which borders Rwanda. In recent weeks, the M23 launched a lightning offensive, capturing Goma ...

The United States and the United Kingdom responded to the outbreak of war in eastern Congo late last month by slapping sanctions on Rwanda‘s defense minister and the spokesman for Congo’s M23 ...

The wider geopolitical context in which M23, and indeed its backer Rwanda, are operating may indeed ... The Alliance Fleuve Congo (AFC), the political arm of M23, has sought to reinforce this ...