The heavily armed rebels do not act alone. They are backed by neighbouring Rwanda, according to the UN and the US. Rwanda ...

Six weeks after Rwanda-backed rebels captured the eastern Congolese cities of Goma and Bukavu, the region is facing a setback ...

The United Nations says the Rwanda-backed M23 rebels have abducted at least 130 sick and wounded men in two hospitals in a ...

A professor of global health was in Kivu when the fighting began to rage. She recounts what she and her colleagues ...

More than a month after rebels captured Goma, the capital of DRC’s North Kivu province, humanitarian workers dispute the UN’s ...

M23 rebels launching an offensive in east Congo abducted at least 130 sick and wounded men from two hospitals in the city of ...

Frank, a World Vision staff member, lost two family members—Laurianne and Jean-Pierre—when the M23 siege on Goma turned their ...

Angolan President Joao Lourenco, the African Union’s peace mediator for the conflict in Congo, is pushing for direct talks ...

The decision means troops in the Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo ...

The latest conflict in eastern Congo has exposed endemic weaknesses in the country’s military, long known for corruption, extortion and abuse.

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The recent kidnappings of patients from hospitals by the M23 once again demonstrate its disregard for peace in eastern DRC ...