Rwanda-backed rebels in eastern Congo have claimed that they have seized a second airport in the region following a days-long ...

The Rwandan-backed rebels' entry into Bukavu follows their capture of Goma, defying international calls for a ceasefire.

Nearly 3,000 people were killed over the last week as rebels captured a key city in one of the deadliest battles in the ...

Hundreds of thousands of displaced people sheltering in camps in and around the city of Goma, in Democratic Republic of Congo ...

The latest fighting is part of a major escalation of a conflict over power, identity and resources dating back to the 1990s Rwandan genocide.

The Rwanda -backed M23 armed group has unlawfully ordered tens of thousands of displaced people to leave the camps around ...

Rwandan-backed M23 rebels who in late January captured Goma, the biggest city in eastern Congo, have since been advancing around one of Africa's great lakes, Lake Kivu, towards the second-biggest city ...

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

Rebels occupying the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo city of Goma have declared a cease-fire but the government dismissed the pause in the fighting as a ruse aimed to head off growing ...

The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has severed diplomatic ties ... Congolese rebels and allied Rwandan forces entered the key eastern city of Goma on Sunday and the airport is no longer ...

Over 2,000 bodies require burial in Goma after Rwanda-backed M23 rebels took over the Democratic Republic of Congo city last week, inflaming a decade-old conflict and humanitarian crisis ...

Congolese rebels say they have "taken" the key city of Goma in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The leader of a rebel alliance that includes the M23 group reiterated on Sunday that ...