Rwanda-backed rebels who have captured eastern Congo’s largest city say they plan to take their rebellion to the capital of ...

(Reuters) -Rwandan-backed M23 rebels asserted their control over east Congo's largest city Goma on Thursday by calling on ...

By Yassin Kombi and Sonia Rolley GOMA, Democratic Republic of Congo (Reuters) - Rwandan-backed rebels strengthened their ...

The rebels, which Rwanda denies supporting, have long been funded at least in part by the illicit mineral trade.

Congo has severed diplomatic ties with Rwanda as fighting between Rwanda-backed rebels and government forces rages around the ...

A rebel alliance spearheaded by the ethnic Tutsi-led M23 militia said it had seized the lakeside city of more than 2 million ...

M23 rebels in the Democratic Republic of Congo were reported to have taken the key eastern city of Goma in fierce fighting ...

When M23 rebels swept into the Congolese city of Goma this week, world powers urged them to immediately withdraw. On Thursday, power and mobile data services, which had been down for days, were back ...

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President of the Democratic Republic of Congo said on Thursday that his troopers are fighting an insurgence by the Rwandan-backed militant group M23 which recently captured swaths of land in the east.

Rwanda denies those accusations. The rebels’ advance on Goma, which began with an offensive in the region launched this month, escalated rapidly over the past three weeks, prompting people to fl ...