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.

The Democratic Republic of the Congo is no stranger ... claims it is fighting to protect the rights of Congo’s Tutsi ethnic minority. Congo and UN experts say neighbouring Rwanda, ruled by ...

Nearly 3,000 people were killed over the last week as rebels captured a key city in one of the deadliest battles in the ...

Almost 3,000 people have been killed in fighting in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the UN has ... framed the conflict as the defence of ethnic Tutsis in eastern DRC from ethnic ...

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

In January, rebel fighters claimed the eastern city of Goma in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC ... of Rwanda (FDLR), a militia composed of ethnic Hutu extremists, the oldest of whom ...

Thirty years after the violence, a related border conflict escalates, with control of mineral wealth at stake.

The UN peacekeeping force in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo has warned of the risk of ethnically motivated ... Washington's envoy to the UN Dorothy Shea called for "ethnic attacks" to end and ...

The UN peacekeeping force in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo has warned of the risk ... Washington's envoy to the UN Dorothy Shea called for "ethnic attacks" to end and said "we must not ...

GOMA, Democratic Republic of Congo ... wars that played out in Congo after the 1994 Rwandan genocide, in which as many as 1 million people, mainly of the Tutsi ethnic group, were killed ...