The March 23 Movement (M23) has claimed the capture of D’idjwi Island in D’idjwi territory, South Kivu province, eastern ...

When the Banyene family were sent back to their home in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, all that had survived the ...

M23 fighters, backed by Rwanda, continue to advance into eastern DR Congo. While the rebels are outnumbered by the Congolese army, DW examines whether the military has the capacity to respond ...

“It is peaceful here, unlike over there,” said Exauce Shalako, a 20-year-old man from Goma who was lounging on the shore of Lake Kivu in Rwanda one afternoon this month. Mr.

CONGOLESE soldiers in a mix of fatigues and street clothes crowded into a chapel recently to stand trial for crimes including ...

Rwanda appears to be betting on its reputation as a key security partner and sports destination to minimize any backlash to its involvement in the war.

Once Minova and Sake on Lake Kivu had fallen to the advancing rebels ... Back in late 1996, another chubby Congolese rebel leader serving as camouflage for a Rwandan military intervention also ...

Bukavu (DR Congo) (AFP) – M23 fighters and Rwandan troops entered the DR Congo ... effectively gives the M23 control of the vast Lake Kivu area, which stretches the length of the border with ...

NAIROBI, Kenya — (AP) — Rwanda's government ... M23's top military commander, Sultani Makenga, is an ethnic Tutsi born in eastern Congo's North Kivu province, where the rebels resurfaced ...

Congo and UN officials have warned the rebel’s next stop may be Bukavu, a city of about a million people on the southern tip of Lake Kivu along Rwanda’s border. The trading hub is an important ...