It is also a swift expansion of the alliance’s foothold across swathes of eastern DR Congo – where rare minerals crucial to the production of phones and computers are mined – and is likely ...

After a rapid advance in the region, fighters from the M23 rebel group have entered Goma – a major city of more than a million people in the east of DR Congo. Sitting on the border with Rwanda ...

Violence has surged in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, with the M23 rebel group seizing Goma, leading to mass instability. The jailbreak of over 4,000 inmates and attacks on embassies have ...

Protesters have attacked several embassies in DR Congo's capital Kinshasa, including the French one, during demonstrations on Tuesday against the escalating conflict in the country's east.

Many Hutu then fled across the border to the DR Congo. Kagame has called for the need to neutralize the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR), a Hutu rebel group operating in ...

The Rwanda-Congo border near Goma was closed on Monday, the AFP news agency cited a European consulate source as saying. As rebels entered Goma, thousands of inmates broke out of the city's ...

On Tuesday, November 20, 2012, a column of M23 rebels fighting the government of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DR Congo) marched on Goma City, the capital of North Kivu Province. They took it ...

The foreign minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Thérèse Kayikwamba Wagner, told the UN Security Council on Tuesday that "Rwanda cannot be allowed to continue to act with impunity." ...

The mineral-rich east of the Democratic Republic of Congo has been dogged by conflict for more than 30 years, since the 1994 Rwandan genocide. Numerous armed groups have competed with the central ...

“All travel to the Democratic Republic of Congo is currently discouraged,” Belgium’s foreign ministry said. “On 28 January, a violent protest took place in Kinshasa against, amongst others ...