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

The U.N. health agency says that fighting last week between Congolese government forces and Rwanda-backed rebels in the major ...

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Official Spokesperson of the Ministry of External Affairs Randhir Jaiswal said on Friday that all Indians in the Democratic ...

The United Nations warned it was concerned by "credible reports that the M23 is moving rapidly towards the city of Bukavu". The second biggest city in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo after ...

Goma (AFP) – The Rwandan-backed armed group M23 moved south as it closed in on a key military airport in DR Congo on Friday ... "We do not want to live under the thumb of these people," one ...

Another key demand is the return of Congolese Tutsi refugees, many of whom live in Uganda and Rwanda, to Congo. The DRC government, however, considers the M23 a "puppet" of Rwandan interests.

Authorities in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) have reported that at least 773 people have been killed in Goma, ...

“Our objective is Congo, we are fighting for Congo. We are not fighting for minerals, we are not fighting for anything [else],” said one of the political leaders of M23, Corneille Nanga ...