STORY: The leader of the alliance that includes the Rwanda-backed M23 rebels dismissed calls for an immediate ceasefire on ...

Rwanda-backed rebels battling Congo’s army have pushed into a strategic, mineral-rich town in the east, ignoring calls for a ...

After talks in Qatar, the two countries’ presidents said they were committed to an unconditional truce between Congo’s army ...

The M23 has continued to gain ground in eastern DR Congo and last month seized the region's second-biggest city, Bukavu.

For decades, the Congo Basin was largely invisible to climate science. Now, a new generation of Central African researchers ...

Experts say it is unlikely that they will march across the country, but their gains have triggered fears of a coup in the capital. The conflict in eastern Congo has brewed for years. This is ...

Nearly 80,000 fleeing the conflict ravaging the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo since January have found refuge in neighbouring countries, the United Nations refugee agency said yesterday.

The rebels are supported by about 4,000 troops from neighboring Rwanda, according to U.N. experts, and at times have vowed to march as far as Congo’s capital, Kinshasa, over 1,000 miles away.

Map locates Goma, Bukavu, Uvira, Bunia and Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of Congo. On paper ... In Kinshasa, the capital, people are worried about his ability to control his security ...

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The M23 took control of South Kivu provincial capital Bukavu over a week ago, after capturing Goma, the capital of North Kivu and the main city in the country's east, late last month. The seizure ...