The leader of Rwandan-backed M23 rebels in eastern Congo said on Thursday that a call by Kinshasa and Kigali for an immediate ...

Rwanda-backed rebels battling Congo’s army have pushed into a strategic, mineral-rich town in the east, ignoring calls for a ...

GOMA, Congo (AP) — Rwanda-backed M23 rebels battling Congo’s army captured another strategic town in the country’s mineral-rich east, residents and insurgents said Thursday, despite ...

in the town’s neighborhoods. Situated about 125 kilometers (80 miles) northwest of the eastern provincial capital, Goma, captured by the rebels in January, Walikale hosts large deposits of tin.

a day after the Congolese and Rwandan presidents called for an immediate ceasefire GOMA, Congo -- Rwanda-backed M23 rebels entered the strategic town of Walikale in eastern Congo late Wednesday ...

The town of about 15,000 people sits about 125km (78 miles) northwest of eastern DRC’s largest city, Goma, which the M23 rebels seized in January. Al Jazeera’s Alain Uaykani, reporting from ...

Security sources have told Al Jazeera that the Rwanda-backed rebels had entered Nyabiondo village, about 100km (62 miles) north of Goma and located on the road leading to the strategic town of ...

The decades-long conflict in eastern Congo escalated in January, when the M23 rebels advanced and seized the strategic city of Goma, followed by the town of Bukavu in February. The latest fighting ...

GOMA, Democratic Republic of Congo (Reuters ... pushed deeper into Congolese territory by capturing the strategic town of Walikale. Walikale is the farthest west the rebels have reached in ...