The Democratic Republic of Congo's foreign minister on Friday accused Rwanda of illegally occupying part of its territory, ...
The Rwandan-backed M23 group on Friday advanced south after seizing the biggest city in mineral-rich eastern DR Congo, in ...
In 2012, when M23 rebels appeared poised to seize control of a major city in eastern Congo, western countries suspended aid ...
The rebels, which Rwanda denies supporting, have long been funded at least in part by the illicit mineral trade.
The United States urged the United Nations Security Council on Tuesday to consider measures to halt an offensive by Rwandan ...
Much of the beleagured city of Goma was calm early Wednesday morning, after a day during which thousands of fleeing people ...
After seizing the biggest city in eastern DR Congo, the Rwandan-backed armed group M23 was advancing south through a ...
According to the United Nations and the United States, M23 is directed and supported by Rwanda; the U.N. says Rwanda has sent thousands of its troops into Congo. Some 500,000 people fled their ...
The Rwanda-backed armed group M23 vowed Thursday to "continue the march of liberation" to the DR Congo capital Kinshasa, as its fighters made further advances in the mineral-rich east of the country.
Local sources said Kigali-backed fighters were advancing on a new front and had seized two districts in South Kivu province, ...
further inflaming tensions between Congo and its neighbor Rwanda — which has a well-documented history of supporting M23 — while threatening to pull more armies into the spiraling conflict.