The seizure by M23 rebels of vast tracts of land in the mineral-rich east of the Democratic Republic of Congo has triggered a ...

The Rwanda-backed M23 armed group was threatening another key town in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo on Friday, as the ...

Nearly three thousand people have been killed in the city of Goma in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, according to ...

Malawi's President Lazarus Chakwera has ordered the military to begin preparing to withdraw from their peacekeeping mission ...

The head of the UN Human Rights Office, Volker Türk, said that the worst could be ahead in the escalation of the crisis in ...

The United Nations Human Rights Council today agreed by consensus to launch an urgent fact-finding mission and commission of ...

A rebel group that claimed to have captured the city of Goma in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo last week has called for an immediate humanitarian ceasefire, after fighting with the Congolese ...

The M23, whose top brass are mostly Congolese Tutsi, began its insurgency more than three years ago after a decade of ...

The Rwanda-backed M23 armed group continued its advance Thursday through eastern Democratic Republic of Congo and looked ...

Hundreds of Congolese women were raped and burnt alive after Rwandan-backed militants raided a prison. The female inmates ...

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

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 ...