Intense clashes broke out as the armed group seized a mining town in South Kivu province and resumed its advance towards the provincial capital of Bukavu. Rwandan-backed M23 rebel group declares ...

The adventure of the Romanian mercenaries from Congo Protection – managed in Goma by Horatiu Potra, a Romanian former member of the French Foreign Legion – came to an end on 29 January, three days ...

Kampala, Uganda – Rwanda is in “command and control” of M23 rebels in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda has “unilaterally doubled its military presence” in the DRC, and armed groups ...

No mediation effort has outlined the incentives required to move the conflict parties towards de-escalation, let alone peace. The fall of Goma and Bukavu to the March 23 Movement (M23)/Alliance Fleuve ...

Initially, the M23 cited a broken peace deal by Kinshasa and discrimination against Tutsi communities as reasons for fighting ...

Rulers of the Democratic Republic of Congo have rarely, if ever, fully controlled the east of Africa’s second-largest country. Kinshasa, its capital, is 1,500km from the provinces (South Kivu, North ...

KIGALI, Rwanda, September 10 (UNHCR) - More than 6,000 Congolese refugees in Rwandan camps have returned home under duress less than two weeks after the start of an apparent forced repatriation. The ...