Rwandan-backed M23 rebels say they are now in control of the key eastern Congolese city of Goma. Their fighters continue to ...

M23 rebels captured the key city of Goma in the eastern DRC Monday, forcing thousands of civilians to flee in the latest in a series of advances Some Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) army forces ...

Efforts to pacify the region, including a peace deal between the Democratic Republic of the Congo and M23 rebels signed ... DRC are already fleeing to neighboring countries, heightening fears ...

The development came amid heightened tensions with neighboring Rwanda, on its eastern flank ... our Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Supreme Commander [President Felix ...

The M23 militia, funded and directed by Rwanda, said it had seized the city of Goma, terrifying its people ... reported from Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo, and Ruth Maclean from Dakar ...

GOMA, Democratic Republic of Congo — On Monday ... DRC's government has called the takeover a "declaration of war" by neighboring Rwanda. Goma, a regional hub of over 2 million people, is ...

UN troops deploy outside Goma, Democratic Republic of the Congo ... There are 4 million displaced people in eastern Congo, and the rebels’ escalated offensive sent additional hundreds of ...

The mineral-rich east of the Democratic Republic of Congo has been dogged ... The instability has sucked in neighbouring countries to devastating effect – notoriously in the 1990s when two ...

It accuses Congo's military of joining forces with Hutu-led militias it says are bent on slaughtering Tutsis in Congo and threatening ... in most of Congo's neighbouring countries and killed ...

Following the Rwandan Patriotic Front’s (RPF) victory against the genocidal Rwandan government, the new Tutsi-led government began its involvement in DRC (then known as The Republic of Zaire).