The US accuses Rwanda of backing the rebels. Rwanda denies the allegation, but its President, Paul Kagame, signed a peace ...

A climate of fear has gripped Uvira, a strategic city in eastern Congo, after it fell to the Rwanda-backed M23 group.

The escalation in fighting comes despite the peace deal brokered by US President Donald Trump last week between DR Congo's ...

A rebel leader in the Democratic Republic of Congo said he and his forces will withdraw from the city of Uvira after the ...

The M23 rebel group consolidated control over the strategic town of Uvira in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo on Thursday, residents said, as Kinshasa warned that the Rwanda-backed advance could ...

Almost 40 members of the M23 rebel group have surrendered in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, military officials said on Monday. The fighters who turned over their arms were reportedly ...

The rebel seizure of Uvira, a city of about 750,000 on the eastern border of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, was a ...

Bram Verelst, a Burundi-based researcher with the Institute for Security Studies (ISS) think-tank, said the assault appeared to be an attempt to force Burundi to withdraw the troops it had in eastern ...

The Rwanda-backed M23 group has captured hundreds of Burundian soldiers during its latest offensive in eastern Democratic ...

A French court jailed Roger Lumbala for crimes against humanity, addressing abuses from Congo’s war more than 20 years ago.

Ex-Congolese rebel leader Roger Lumbala was sentenced Monday in France to 30 years in prison over atrocities committed two ...

A high military court in Congo convicted former President Joseph Kabila of treason and war crimes Tuesday on accusations of collaborating with anti-government rebels and sentenced him to death. It was ...