The M23 militia has tried to assert itself as the government in and around Goma. It is failing badly.

Vivian van de Perre, acting head of the UN peacekeeping mission in the DR Congo (MONUSCO), met with leaders of the March 23 ...

Portrayed as victims in need of rescue or as accomplices of a foreign rebellion, South Kivu’s Tutsi communities face a precarious position.

The seizure and then abrupt withdrawal of the M23 armed group from the city of Uvira in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo's South Kivu province has drawn renewed attention to the precarious ...

Nobel Prize-winning Congolese doctor Denis Mukwege on Sunday cast doubt over the longevity of the latest potential ceasefire ...

Congolese public officials have trickled back to work in recent weeks in the contested town of Uvira on the Burundi border, ...

The Democratic Republic of the Congo on Friday accepted Angola's proposal for a ceasefire between the government and the AFC/M23 armed group, the president’s office announced. Amid intensified ...

For many people, the current conflict in eastern DR Congo is a distant political story--another headline about rebels, armies, and negotiations. But for some of us, it is deeply personal. It brings ...

AFC/M23 fighters seized Uvira, a trading hub on Lake Tanganyika and a gateway to neighbouring Burundi, in December and pulled out a week later under US pressure. Their withdrawal allowed DRC forces to ...

DRC vs Rwanda, Sudan crisis, Giorgia Meloni’s presence… Burundian president Évariste Ndayishimiye assumes the AU presidency in turbulent times.

The DR Congo government said Friday it had accepted "the principle" of a ceasefire but its foes in the eastern conflict, the Rwanda-backed M23 militia, condemned "attempts at manipulation". "The ...