Rwandan-backed M23 rebels in Democratic Republic of Congo are seeking to advance south towards Bukavu, the capital of South ...

KAMPALA, Uganda — After Rwanda-backed M23 rebels took control of the biggest ... army and the return of refugees from elsewhere in east Africa — had been violated by Congo's government.

Much of the beleagured city of Goma was calm early Wednesday morning, after a day during which thousands of fleeing people ...

The AFC/M23 rebel coalition announced late on Monday that it would implement a unilateral ceasefire starting on Tuesday. The ...

M23 is the latest in a series of Tutsi-led rebellions that have emerged in Congo's east since the official end of a string of conflicts between 1996 and 2003 that sucked in most of Congo's ...

The M23's lightning offensive marks a major escalation in the DRC's troubled east, haunted by the legacy ... Read moreEye on Africa - African Union urges M23 to 'lay down arms' The International ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. UN troops deploy outside Goma, Democratic Republic of the Congo, ...

Congo has severed diplomatic ties with Rwanda as fighting between Rwanda-backed rebels, the M23 group, and Government forces rage ... there were nearly 11,000 peacekeepers on the ground, mostly in the ...

Congolese forces were losing control of the city of Goma on Wednesday after rebel groups backed by Rwanda took over the ...

In 2012, when M23 rebels appeared poised ... a fellow Chatham House’s Africa Program. Kagame’s efforts to transform his small east African nation into a political and economic juggernaut ...

As M23 Rebel Group Advances in Congo ... integration into the army and the return of refugees from elsewhere in east Africa — had been violated by Congo’s government. Led by Makenga, a ...