The Democratic Republic of Congo's President Félix Tshisekedi will not take part in regionally brokered talks aimed at ending the rebel assault on the key eastern city of Goma, state media has reported.

Meanwhile, President Felix Tshisekedi appointed Maj Gen Somo Kakule Evariste ... "This is a way of hiding the huge humiliation the AFC/M23 inflicted on Kinshasa by taking over Goma, something Tshisekedi had publicly said they would never do."

Once again, the eastern Congolese city of Goma has fallen to the Rwanda-backed M23 rebel group. The mayhem is certainly real; the Democratic Republic of Congo’s (DRC) displacement crisis is second only to Sudan’s,

The president of crisis-hit Democratic Republic of Congo was set to meet his Rwandan counterpart at an emergency summit on Wednesday, as fighters backed by Kigali appeared on the brink of seizing the key city of Goma.

The president of crisis-hit Democratic Republic of Congo was set to meet his Rwandan counterpart at an emergency summit on Wednesday, as fighters backed by Kigali appeared on the brink of seizing the key city of Goma.

Rwandan-backed M23 rebels in Democratic Republic of Congo were moving south on Wednesday towards Bukavu, the capital of South Kivu province, in what appeared to be an attempt to expand their area of control in the country's east after capturing the city of Goma.

A rebel alliance spearheaded by the ethnic Tutsi-led M23 militia said it had seized the lakeside city of more than 2 million people.

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio expressed condemnation towards the assault on Goma, the Democratic Republic of Congo's largest city. The attack was conducted by M23 militia rebels, backed by Rwanda.

Félix Tshisekedi, has declined to attend peace talks about the escalating conflict in Goma, as M23 rebels intensify their assault on the city. Despite calls from Kenyan President William Ruto for dialogue,

M23 is the latest ethnic Tutsi-led, Rwandan-backed insurgency to fight in Congo since the aftermath of the genocide 30 years ago, when extremist Hutus killed Tutsis and moderate Hutus before being toppled by Tutsi-led forces under Paul Kagame. He has been Rwanda's president ever since.

Tanzania and Malawi troops are operating in DRC under SAMIDRC, while Burundian troops are in DRC under a bilateral arrangement with the DRC government