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Last month, M23 rebels backed by Rwanda took the city of Goma in a bloody battle. This weekend, the group entered the gold-trading center of Bukavu in eastern Congo after government soldiers fled.

BUKAVU, Congo — Rwanda-backed rebels have occupied a second major city in mineral-rich eastern Congo, the government said Sunday, as M23 rebels confirmed they were in the city to restore order ...

GOMA, Congo — Panic swept through eastern Congo’s second-largest city on Saturday as residents fled by the thousands, scrambling to escape the looming advance of Rwanda-backed rebels.

The group was formed in 2012 by some members of the National Congress for the Defence of the People (CNDP), which itself was an offshoot of the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) — the Tutsi rebels ...

Fears of fresh massacres have gripped Congo's second largest city of Bukavu as Rwandan-backed M23 rebels continue to advance on the city of 1.3 million people. Earlier this week, a new UN report ...

Since 1996, conflict in eastern DRC has led to approximately six million deaths. The First Congo War (1996–1997) began in the wake of the 1994 Rwandan Genocide, during which ethnic Hutu ...

(AP Photo/Janvier Barhahiga) An aerial view of the central prison were inmates fled following the arrival of M23 rebels in Bukavu, eastern Congo, Saturday, Feb. 15, 2025. (AP Photo/Janvier Barhahiga) ...

M23 rebels guard outside the South Kivu province administrative office, at the centre of east Congo's second-largest city, Bukavu, Sunday, Feb. 16, 2025. Image- AP Columns of M23 fighters, backed by ...