Rwanda has also deployed high-tech military equipment such as mobile air-defense units to North Kivu to support the M23. The UN had long resisted publicly acknowledging Rwanda's direct involvement ...

A United Nations report says Rwanda provided critical support to the M23 rebels who seized key cities earlier this year in ...

The rebel group, which Congolese authorities accuse Rwanda of backing but Rwanda denies, seized the town of Kiwanja in eastern Congo on Saturday, effectively cutting North Kivu's capital Goma off ...

The US and Qatar-brokered peace agreement must be followed by disengagement and return of displaced families, DRC says.

The governor of eastern Congo’s North Kivu province has died from injuries sustained during fighting on the front line, authorities said Friday, as M23 rebels closed in on the provincial capital.

Rwanda-backed M23 rebels in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo have committed unlawful killings, rape, and other apparent war crimes since late 2022. Attacks with explosive weapons in populated ...

Rwanda-backed M23 fighters took control of Kavumu airport, a major military base and the largest airport in South Kivu. The airport is 40 km north of Bukavu, the second-largest city in eastern Congo.

The head of the U.N. peacekeeping mission in Congo met with leaders of the Rwanda-backed rebel group M23 on Friday in Goma, in her first visit to the eastern city of Goma since its capture by the ...

The new governor of North Kivu Province in eastern DR Congo announced on Tuesday, February 11 a new extension of border crossing time between Goma city and Rubavu District in Rwanda. The new ...

Congolese forces lose the town of Matembe in North Kivu to advancing M23 fighters. Fighting flares up once again in the wake of Sunday's scuppered peace talks in Angola between the leaders of ...

Rwanda invaded Congo in 1996 and again 1998, on the pretext of fighting Hutu forces responsible for the 1994 genocide. After 1998, Rwanda ruled the southern portion of North Kivu province through its ...

Rwandan backed rebels have entered the city of Goma, a key city in neighboring Democratic Republic of Congo. Could the mineral rich region be in danger of tipping into all out regional conflict?