UN says more than 700 killed in just five days of fighting in DR Congo
More than 700 people have been killed and 2,800 injured in just five days since fighting escalated in the east of the ...
DR Congo’s president says country won’t be humiliated after rebels claim takeover
Democratic Republic of Congo President Felix Tshisekedi has vowed “a vigorous and coordinated response” against a rebel ...
As it happened: Missiles fly over homes and bodies in streets in DR Congo city
Rwandan-backed rebels have taken over much of the city of Goma in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo, although some ...
Violence erupts in mineral-rich DR Congo as rebels move into key city. Here’s what we know
A rebel alliance claimed the capture of the biggest city in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s mineral-rich eastern region ...
'All we can hear are gunshots': DR Congo fighting as it happened
Fighting across Goma "is still very much ongoing", senior UN official Bruno Lemarquis has said, Reuters news agency reports, after M23 rebels claimed they had seized the largest city in eastern ...
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French foreign ministry says Rwanda fighters must leave DR Congo ‘immediately’
A French government spokesman on Thursday demanded the departure from DR Congo of Rwandan forces and ... Tshisekedi, in his first remarks since the latest crisis began, said in a late-night ...
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DR Congo's failed gamble on Romanian mercenaries
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 ...
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DR Congo’s president says country won’t be humiliated after rebels claim takeover
Goma, the largest city in eastern DR Congo’s North Kivu province, fell under the control of the AFC/M23 rebel coalition on Monday, the rebels told CNN. This was the latest in a string of ...