Rwanda appears to be betting on its reputation as a key security partner and sports destination to minimize any backlash to its involvement in the war.
Rwanda-backed rebels have "occupied" a second major city in mineral-rich eastern Congo ... of young men cheered the rebels on to "go all the way to Kinshasa," Congo's capital, nearly 1,000 miles away.
BUKAVU, Congo (AP) — Rwanda-backed rebels reached the center of east Congo’s second largest city, Bukavu, on Sunday morning and took control of the South Kivu province administrative office after ...
Since January, however, the rapid conquest and occupation of a huge area of the Democratic Republic of Congo by Rwanda and the M23 rebel group it supports has raised concerns that the principle may ...
With mass killings, prison breaks, mass displacement and mystery illnesses, violence has once again become a central issue in ...
Nairobi, Kenya – Weeks after Rwanda-backed M23 rebels claimed control of the Congolese city of Goma, the capital of North Kivu province, fighters are advancing in neighbouring South Kivu despite ...
The fall of the city of one million people, which was barely defended by the Congolese armed forces (FARDC), gives the M23 total control of Lake Kivu, following its capture of Goma, capital of the ...
Kinshasa, its capital, is 1,500km from the provinces ... and machine-guns took triumphant selfies in the city’s main square. Rwanda, which has a territory 1/90th of Congo’s, now in effect ...
GOMA, Congo (AP) — Panic swept through eastern Congo’s second-largest city on Saturday as residents and soldiers fled by the thousands, scrambling to escape the looming advance of Rwanda ...