LIVE: M23 Captures South Kivu’s Capital Bukavu as DR Congo Soldiers Flee | Firstpost Africa Rwanda-backed M23 rebels have ...

M23 Rebels Capture South Kivu’s Bukavu as Uganda Threatens Attack | Firstpost Africa | N18G Rwanda-backed M23 rebels have ...

DR Congo's prime minister said Monday that "more than 7,000" people have been killed in the east of the country since January ...

In recent days, the security situation around the city of Uvira, in South Kivu province of Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), has rapidly deteriorated, reaching a critical point on 15 February.

The continued occupation of North Kivu in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) by the M23 armed group has "severely constrained" the UN stabilisation force's ability to protect civilians ...

Three former African leaders have been appointed as facilitators of the latest regional mediation mechanism brokered by ...

Kinshasa, its capital, is 1,500km from the provinces (South Kivu, North Kivu and Ituri) that border the other Great Lakes countries (Burundi, Rwanda and Uganda). The advance of M23, a Rwandan ...

Neither Rwandan President Paul Kagame nor his Congolese counterpart Felix Tshisekedi attended Friday's AU meeting.

The head of the UN mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) said that Rwanda-supported M23 rebels in the e ...

The Congolese community is so close-knit that the locals call the area where they live ...

M23 fighters on Friday advanced further on several fronts in DR Congo's volatile east as international pressure mounted on ...

An army spokesperson did not respond to a request for comment about the incident in late January in Goma. The United Nations ...