The Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda-backed M23 rebels on Wednesday pledged in statements released after talks in ...

A joint statement from Congo's government and a coalition of insurgents in the country’s east including the M23 rebels says ...

Clashes between pro-government forces and Rwanda-backed rebels reached Goma in east Congo, residents told Reuters on Saturday, as each side blamed the other for the worst violence in the area's ...

FILE - Women and children eat Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2025 in a Goma, eastern Congo school where they found shelter after their soldier husbands and fathers were sent to Rumangabo for mixing and ...

Thousands of children have been subjected to rape and sexual violence in the conflict-battered eastern Congo over the course of two months, the U.N. children’s agency said Friday, warning that ...

The decades-long conflict in the central African nation of Congo escalated in January, when the M23 rebels advanced and seized the strategic eastern Congolese city of Goma, followed by the town of ...

DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Thousands of children have been subjected to rape and sexual violence in conflict-battered eastern Congo over the course of two months, the U.N. children’s agency said ...

M23's rapid advance this year has left thousands of civilians dead, displaced hundreds of thousands more and given the rebels control over much of Democratic Republic of Congo's eastern ...

citing when the M23 briefly captured Goma in 2012 before pulling out. M23 is one of about 100 armed groups that have been vying for a foothold in mineral-rich eastern Congo near the border with ...

Belgium has denied claims that it has sent troops to engage rebels in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, amid a diplomatic ... who in recent months have seized Goma and Bukavu ...