Antonio Guterres says a ‘regional escalation must be avoided at all costs’ as Rwanda-backed M23 forces gain ground.

Residents and business owners in eastern Congo’s second largest city are sitting in wait after a night of loud gunfire ...

M23 fighters and Rwandan troops seized the airport serving Bukavu, the capital of South Kivu province in the eastern ...

M23 fighters and Rwandan troops entered the DR Congo provincial capital of Bukavu on Friday, security and humanitarian ...

Rwandan-backed M23 rebels who in late January captured Goma, the biggest city in eastern Congo, have since been advancing around one of Africa's great lakes, Lake Kivu, towards the second-biggest city ...

The U.N. children’s fund is accusing armed men, likely on both sides of the conflict in eastern Congo, of raping scores of ...

The Democratic Republic of Congo is in turmoil - fighters from the notorious M23 rebel group have been surging through the ...

With Nangaa’s Congo River Alliance as the “political ... and regional peacekeepers and mercenaries from Europe. M23 has about 6,500 fighters, according to U.N. estimates.

M23 forcing local alliances in Congo Unlike in 2012, when the M23 took Goma in a campaign led by Kinyarwanda-speaking fighters pushing mainly for their full integration into the Congolese army ...