Congo's leader has called on young people to enlist in the army to help fight Rwanda-backed rebels attempting to seize more ...
Regional tensions spiral as peacekeepers killed in fighting following Rwandan-backed M23 rebel group offensive ...
Local sources said Kigali-backed fighters were advancing on a new front and had seized two districts in South Kivu province, ...
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa accuses Rwanda of backing M23 rebels behind escalating crisis in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo this week ...
The rebels, which Rwanda denies supporting, have long been funded at least in part by the illicit mineral trade.
Many Congolese see the rebel advance as an invasion of their country by a foreign power in an attempt to seize land and Congo ...
The Rwanda-backed armed group M23 vowed Thursday to "continue the march of liberation" to the DR Congo capital Kinshasa, as ...
Rwanda denies this, but Congo's army said on ... adding that an advance in neighbouring South Kivu province had also been halted. The situation appeared calm in Goma during the day on Saturday ...