The M23, whose top brass are mostly Congolese Tutsi, began its insurgency more than three years ago after a decade of dormancy, seizing large parts of North Kivu province before finally grabbing Goma, ...

Approximately six million people have died in the conflict in the eastern D.R.C. since 1996. For decades, numerous armed ...

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 ...

Ombeni ran out the office and into the street, where crowds tried to dodge bullets and vehicles speeding through the city, ...

DRC and Rwanda together supply around half the world's coltan, the metallic ore that is vital in making phones and laptops.

The World Health Organization said that at least 900 bodies were recovered from the streets of Goma as of last Friday ...

The international community must take concrete action and impose sanctions on Rwanda to curb the M23 rebel conflict in ...

NEWS ANALYSIS. The capture of Goma by the M23 rebel movement and Rwandan army forces has positioned Kigali as the dominant ...

Planes, small and big, fly in, are loaded with minerals, and fly out to destinations unknown, under the radar of the ...

A major offensive by Rwandan-backed M23 rebels in east Democratic Republic of Congo appeared to have stalled on Saturday ...

Rwandan-backed armed group M23 seized one of the world’s most productive coltan concessions, in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. Since then, a UN report estimates that 120 tonnes of the precious ...

The M23 rebel group that is backed by Rwanda has emerged as a more potent force after being crushed during their first rebellion in 2012 ...