It’s difficult to know why Kagame gambled on his troops seizing Goma now, a move surely to trigger an international outcry.

The rebels continued advances in eastern Congo despite their own announcement of a cease-fire. The U.N. secretary-general ...

GENEVA (AP) — The U.N.'s top human rights body was holding an urgent session on Friday on spiralling violence in eastern Congo, where Rwanda-backed rebels recently captured a key city and some 3,000 ...

Zawadi Sifa has been fleeing conflict since 2012, most recently finding herself in Goma as Rwanda-backed M23 rebels took over ...

Zawadi Sifa has been fleeing conflict since 2012, most recently finding herself in Goma as Rwanda-backed M23 rebels took over the city. (AP video by Justin Kabumba) ...

More than 150 female prisoners were raped and burned to death during a jailbreak last week when fleeing male inmates set fire to a prison in Goma, in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, a United ...

The capture of Goma, the main city in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, last week by the M23 rebel group follows a three-year insurgency heavily supported by neighbouring Rwanda despite its ...

There is a good chance that inside your mobile phone is a miniscule amount of a metal that started its journey buried in the earth of eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, where a war is currently ...

Rwanda-backed rebels are gaining ground in eastern Congo despite the unilateral ceasefire they declared earlier this week. Civil society officials and residents tell The Associated Press that the M23 ...

Cyril Ramaphosa, the President of South Africa, has long been portrayed as a champion of economic transformation and a ...

The M23 rebel group have captured the city of Goma in the eastern DRC in a major escalation of a drawn-out conflict.