The Democratic Republic of Congo has been mired in conflict for years. As fresh fighting surges in the east, the roots of ...

The rebels, who captured the region's largest city of Goma, issued a 72-hour ultimatum for displaced people to return to ...

Rwandan-backed M23 rebels say they are now in control of the key eastern Congolese city of Goma. Their fighters continue to ...

Rwanda-backed rebels who seized a major city in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have declared a unilateral ceasefire on humanitarian grounds. The M23 rebel group announced on Monday that ...

A map of Africa highlights two countries: Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo, along with two major Congolese cities, Kinshasa and Goma.

The Democratic Republic of the Congo is no stranger ... When tens of thousands of Hutus fled Rwanda for Congo in the mid-1990s after the fall of the genocidal regime in Kigali, Congo’s local ...

A conflict that has raged for decades reached a flashpoint this week when rebels backed by Rwanda marched on a key Congolese city in a bid to occupy territory and exploit minerals. Displaced ...

The idea of Rwanda invading the Democratic Republic of Congo looks, on paper, preposterous. However, as an alliance of rebel groups seized Goma, the ...

The Government of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) said Monday that the “Rwandan Army” is in the strategic Congolese city of Goma (northeast), taken by the rebel group Mar. 23 Movement (M23), ...

29 (UPI) --The U.S. State Department called for a cease-fire in the conflict in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo saying Washington ... Advertisement She warned Rwanda's actions had opened ...

GOMA, Democratic Republic of Congo — On Monday ... many of whom live in Uganda and Rwanda, to Congo. The DRC government, however, considers the M23 a "puppet" of Rwandan interests.