A rebel outfit that easily dispatches the national army, doing so with lightning speed, must surely have external benefactors doing the propping and supplying the military wherewithal ...

A Rwanda-backed militia seized the pivotal Congolese city of Goma this week, threatening a new humanitarian crisis after ...

The U.N. voices concern over alleged atrocities as Rwandan-backed rebels reportedly advance after seizing the city of Goma in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

M23 rebels claim they now control the Congolese city of Goma—an act Congo's government described as a 'declaration of war.' ...

The M23 group is one of about 100 armed factions vying for a foothold in eastern Congo in one of Africa’s longest wars, which ...

Amnesty International called on the International Criminal Court to investigate the attacks as war crimes ... place to go to ...

This long-running and particularly brutal war has now displaced more than 4.6 million people in the eastern provinces of South and North Kivu in what is a major humanitarian crisis. In starving ...

“These attacks continue to ravage the city, killing, injuring, traumatising, and displacing civilians and exacerbating the crisis ... a human face to the war in Congo. Daniel Buuma’s ...

South Africa has troops deployed in the war-torn Democratic Republic of Congo as part of a U.N. peacekeeping ... in an African Union meeting on the crisis. “As South Africa, we participated ...

KINSHASA/PARIS, Jan 30 (Reuters) - France's foreign minister was due in Rwanda on Thursday after talks in the Democratic Republic of Congo as part of efforts to prevent a regional escalation ...

Amnesty International has accused Congo’s army and a rebel group of bombing densely populated areas in attacks that “likely constitute war crimes.” KINSHASA, Congo -- Prominent human rights ...