GOMA (Reuters) - The leader of the rebel alliance that has seized swathes of east Congo told Reuters on Thursday that the ...

The M23 has continued to gain ground in eastern DR Congo and last month seized the region's second-biggest city, Bukavu.

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

DR Congo troops fled ... The fall of the city of one million people gives the M23 total control of Lake Kivu, following its capture of Goma, capital of neighbouring North Kivu province, at the ...

M23 seizes mining hub, with rebel alliance leader saying call for a ceasefire from DRC and Rwanda ‘doesn’t concern us’.

Fighting in the mineral-rich east of the DRC has recently intensified with the Rwanda-backed M23 armed group launching a ...

Congo-Kinshasa (MNN) — M23 rebels recently seized a strategic mining hub in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, ...

Two explosions rocked a city in eastern DR Congo Thursday after a meeting of ... The M23 took control of South Kivu provincial capital Bukavu over a week ago, after capturing Goma, the capital ...

The blasts rocked a meeting of the M23 armed group in eastern DRC's second-largest city. Some 65 people ... in the South Kivu provincial capital of Bukavu. Congo's president, Felix Tshisekedi ...

Since January, the M23 rebels have captured Goma, the largest city in the region and the capital of North Kivu ... east of the Democratic Republic of Congo, observers have said.