Rwandan-backed M23 rebels in Democratic Republic of Congo are seeking to advance south towards Bukavu, the capital of South ...

Critical minerals factor into the fight. By Ruth Maclean Rebels backed by Rwanda are seizing huge tracts of the Democratic Republic of Congo. Their progress has been swift and stunning.

In Democratic Republic of Congo this week, Rwandan-backed M23 rebels seized Goma, the country's largest eastern city. A force composed of South African troops and Southern African allies that had ...

Rwanda-backed rebels claimed they captured eastern Congo’s largest city, Goma, early Monday, as the United Nations described a “mass panic” among its 2 million people and Congo’s government said the ...

Some Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) army forces ... “Those weapons are from forces that manufacture arms themselves. They are not from the region,” he said. The retired general, known ...

Congo's M23 Rebels Take Control of Goma Airport ... People in several neighbourhoods reported small arms fire and some loud explosions on Tuesday morning. By Tuesday afternoon, several diplomatic ...

GOMA, Congo — Congolese security forces on Tuesday ... and this morning (there were) heavy small arms fire and mortar fire across the city and the presence of many dead bodies in the streets ...

Residents of the besieged city of Goma, in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo, say they are gripped ... Congolese soldiers surrendering their arms to Rwandan forces at a Rwandan border ...

M23 took up arms once again in 2021, claiming to protect the Tutsi population in eastern Congo from discrimination and violence. However, DRC leaders in Kinshasa, the capital, say the group is ...

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 ...

An insurgency led by M23 rebels in eastern Congo has escalated and reached the city of Goma, worsening a humanitarian crisis in a region that suffered two devastating wars between 1996 and 2003.

Democratic Republic of Congo President Felix Tshisekedi has vowed “a vigorous and coordinated response” against a rebel alliance that has besieged swathes of the nation’s mineral-rich east ...