In Goma, where the M23 has installed its own mayor, governor and other authorities, the group convened tens of thousands of people for a public meeting of the River Congo Alliance, a political ...

Vivian van de Perre, deputy head of the UN mission in DR Congo, said Wednesday that “so far 2,000 bodies have been collected from the Goma streets in recent days, and 900 bodies remain in the ...

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The Rwanda-backed M23 armed group continued its advance Thursday through eastern Democratic Republic of Congo and looked poised to seize a strategic town, as United Nations chief Antonio Guterres ...

Previous interventions, including truce agreements, failed to cease hostilities. DR Congo’s military spokesperson, General Sylvain Ekenge, told CNN Tuesday that the rebels’ call for a ceasefir ...

U.N. spokesman Stephane Dujarric said the World Health Organisation and its partners conducted an assessment with DR Congo’s government between Jan. 26-30 “and report that 700 people have been ...

The conflict in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo risks escalating into a broader ... They carried Congolese flags and banners calling for an end to the war or saying "Our resources, our ...

The Romanians were contracted to help the army fight the Rwanda-backed M23 rebels, who say they are fighting to protect the rights of DR Congo's minority ethnic Tutsis. When the offensive on Goma ...

Democratic Republic of Congo President Felix Tshisekedi has insisted that his troops are mounting a “vigorous” response to Rwanda-backed fighters advancing in the country’s perennially ...

Lay down arms': African Union - At a UN Security Council ... Kenya meanwhile has announced a crisis summit on Wednesday to be attended by DR Congo's President Felix Tshisekedi and his Rwandan ...

On Tuesday, the new US Secretary of State Marco Rubio urged Rwanda's President Paul Kagame to ensure an immediate ceasefire in DR Congo ... the M23 to lay down its arms. The AU's peace and ...