The head of the U.N. peacekeeping mission in Congo met with leaders of the Rwanda-backed rebel group M23 on Friday in Goma, ...

The decades-long conflict escalated in January, when the M23 rebels advanced and seized the strategic Congolese city of Goma, ...

M23 rebels have controlled Goma, a city in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Violence overshadows everyday ...

For the first time since rebel forces took control of Goma, the head of the United Nations peacekeeping mission in Congo, ...

Earlier this year the UN peacekeeping force, known as Monusco, was unable to stop the rebel group advancing and seizing large ...

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio hosts a signing ceremony in which Congo's Foreign Minister Therese Kayikwamba Wagner, (left ...

Qatar has presented a draft peace proposal to the Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda-backed M23 rebels following months of mediation in Doha. But from Kinshasa, progress looks slow and uncertain.

Congo and Rwanda will sign a peace agreement in Washington on June 27 that aims to ending fighting in eastern Congo, the two ...

GOMA, Congo (AP ... Mission head Bintou Keita met with Corneille Nangaa, leader of the Congo River Alliance that includes M23, and other representatives. The rebel leaders "expressed their ...

and also of her team sat across from leaders of the Congo River Alliance - which includes the M23 rebel group. These were not the UN-led first talks since the takeover of Goma, but they are the ...