There have been several attempts to resolve the spiralling conflict, rooted in the fallout from Rwanda's 1994 genocide and ...

The leader of the rebels who captured two key cities in eastern Congo says international sanctions and the planned minerals ...

Rwanda-backed M23 rebels pressed deeper into Congolese territory a day after Congo and Rwanda's presidents called for an ...

Congolese soldiers near the city of Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo, in January, shortly before the M23 militia captured ... Then, after independence, the United States and Belgium backed ...

M23 fighters, backed by Rwanda ... "My predecessor spent 18 years in power without rebuilding the army," the president told the US daily The New York Times. Some members of the armed forces ...

Rwanda-backed M23 rebels have pushed deeper into the eastern ... we’ll say it doesn’t concern us.” An officer in the Congolese military told the AFP news agency that forces had “retreated ...

(Reuters) -Rwanda-backed M23 rebels staging an offensive in east Congo will reposition their forces from the town of Walikale ...

The US ambassador to the Democratic Republic of the Congo has condemned the M23 rebels' recent kidnapping ... claiming to be Congolese army soldiers or members of the pro-government militia ...

M23 fighters, backed by Rwanda, continue to advance into eastern DR Congo. While the rebels are outnumbered by the Congolese army, DW examines whether the military has the capacity to respond ...

Since January, the M23 rebel movement ... "Don't forget that this army was led at the beginning after the fall of Mobutu by James Kabarebe, a Rwandan military officer who is now under sanctions from ...

"As for us, we are going to continue ... in self-defence against Congo's army and a militia founded by perpetrators of the 1994 genocide. Congo and M23 had been expected to have their first ...