Rwanda-backed rebels who captured eastern Congo’s major city of Goma have targeted relatives of fleeing Congolese soldiers.

South Africa's armed forces say a group of soldiers critically injured in fighting in eastern Congo a month ago have been ...

M23 rebels, backed by Rwanda, claimed to have taken control of Goma, eastern Congo's largest city, early on Monday, while a 48-hour deadline for the Congolese army to surrender expired.

Burundi is withdrawing its forces from eastern Democratic Republic of Congo where they had been fighting against M23 rebels, ...

Last month, M23 rebels backed by Rwanda took the city of Goma in a bloody battle. This weekend, the group entered the gold-trading center of Bukavu in eastern Congo after government soldiers fled.

More than 7,000 people have died this year as Rwanda-backed M23 rebels have captured unprecedented amounts of territory in ...

Eastern and Southern African countries are looking into the possibility of deploying troops to secure areas of eastern ...

Goma, early Monday, as the United Nations described a “mass panic” among its 2 million people and Congo’s government said the rebel advance was a “declaration of war.” The M23 rebels ...

The M23 rebel movement seized Goma after a lightning ... residents told The Washington Post. Goma is the capital of Congo’s mineral-rich North Kivu region, a longtime tinderbox for ethnic ...

Bukavu lies 63 miles (101 kilometers) south of Goma, which was captured by the rebels in late January. The M23 is the most ...

The United Nations' peacekeeping chief said Friday that M23 rebels are advancing south toward the provincial capital of Bukavu after seizing control of Goma in the mineral-rich eastern Congo ...

(Reuters) -Rwandan-backed M23 rebels advanced on Sunday into the centre of Bukavu, the second-largest city in eastern ...