Diplomatic sources say the bloc is facing calls to suspend its wide-ranging minerals agreement with Rwanda amid fears it is ...

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Congolese security forces on Tuesday tried to slow the advance of Rwanda-backed M23 rebels who say they have captured Goma ...

Just over three years after the resurgence of the M23 in eastern DR Congo, the rebel group's war with a government coalition saw its biggest escalation on Sunday, January 26, when the rebels entered ...

DR Congo's President Felix Tshisekedi insisted Wednesday that his troops were mounting a "vigorous" military response as ...

Kenyan President William Ruto, who chairs the East African Community, announced that he had convened an Extraordinary Summit ...

As an East African bloc urged an immediate ceasefire in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwandan-backed M23 rebels who ...

UNITED NATIONS - The United Nations said Wednesday that there is relative calm in the eastern Congolese city of Goma, ...

Rwanda-backed fighters advanced on a second front in their lightning offensive across eastern DR Congo on Wednesday after ...

Democratic Republic of Congo's M23 rebels are moving south towards Bukavu, the capital of South Kivu province, in what ...

Some violent protesters in the DR Congo have set the US embassy building in Kashasa, the nation's capital ablaze.