Rebels backed by Rwanda have captured more towns in eastern Congo as fighters moved beyond the key city of Goma in an ...

By Yassin Kombi and Sonia Rolley GOMA, Democratic Republic of Congo (Reuters) - Rwandan-backed rebels strengthened their ...

The rebels, which Rwanda denies supporting, have long been funded at least in part by the illicit mineral trade.

The United States urged the United Nations Security Council on Tuesday to consider measures to halt an offensive by Rwandan ...

Congo has severed diplomatic ties with Rwanda as fighting between Rwanda-backed rebels and government forces rages around the ...

After a lightning offensive, M23 rebels now control Goma, a large city in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.

Congolese Foreign Minister Thérèse Kayikwamba Wagner condemned the rebels’ advance as a ... and well-documented history of supporting M23. Rwanda’s Foreign Ministry blamed the violence ...

The M23 has made significant territorial gains along Congo’s border with Rwanda in recent weeks, after months of regional attempts to make peace failed. On Sunday night, the rebels called on ...

Rwanda’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs accused Congo of failing to enter a dialogue with M23, which it described as a “Congolese rebel group fighting to protect their community.” That failure ...