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.

Since January, however, the rapid conquest and occupation of a huge area of the Democratic Republic of Congo by Rwanda and ...

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 ...

With mass killings, prison breaks, mass displacement and mystery illnesses, violence has once again become a central issue in ...

DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Rwanda-backed rebels appeared to be heading toward a third major city in eastern Congo ... this week seized another provincial capital to Goma's south, Bukavu, near ...

Angola has announced plans to act as a mediator in the conflict between Congo and the Rwandan-backed rebel group M23 ...

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 ...