Congo calls an emergency UN Human Rights Council meeting, demanding an urgent investigation of violations it says have been committed by Rwandan-backed M23 rebels.

The rebels continued advances in eastern Congo despite their own announcement of a cease-fire. The U.N. secretary-general ...

KINSHASA: The UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has expressed alarm over the resumption of hostilities by the March 23 Movement (M23) rebellion in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC ...

KINSHASA -- Tensions remained high in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) on Tuesday as the March 23 Movement (M23) rebellion advanced in the ... UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on ...

Southern African heads of state re-affirmed their support for Democratic Republic of Congo in its fight against Rwanda-backed ...

This week, the town of Goma in the Eastern DRC was captured by the rebel group M23, fully supported by Rwanda. First, it is important to make it clear that the cataclysmic life of the post ...

A lightning advance in Congo's mineral-rich eastern borderlands is set to boost the M23 rebellion's illegal mining revenues, with analysts predicting a further surge in illicit trade in minerals ...

Some two million people have been displaced as a result of the conflict in recent years; the M23 rebellion alone has displaced around half a million. AFP is a leading global news agency providing ...

"What we're seeing today with the M23 rebellion and the fall of Goma is in some ways the latest in a succession of conflicts that have pitted the tiny neighbour of the Congo, Rwanda, against the ...