At a briefing where they sought to assert their control over the eastern city of Goma and surrounding territory in the neighboring South Kivu province, the M23 rebels said they would be open to ...

President Paul Kagame says Rwanda was ready for 'confrontation' as he rejected criticism over his backing for M23 rebels who were pushing south in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo ...

A sustained and successful push by M23 into the neighbouring province of South Kivu would see them control territory previous rebellions have not taken since the end of two major wars that ran ...

The US and Qatar-brokered peace agreement must be followed by disengagement and return of displaced families, DRC says.

A peace agreement brokered by the White House to stem the bloodshed in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo was signed in ...

Rwanda-backed M23 fighters took control of Kavumu airport, a major military base and the largest airport in South Kivu. The airport is 40 km north of Bukavu, the second-largest city in eastern Congo.

The Rwanda-backed M23 rebels control several areas in eastern Congo, including Luhihi and the provincial capital of South Kivu, Bukavu. The decades-long conflict in the region escalated in January ...

M23 rebels in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo recently allowed the BBC to visit a huge mining site under their control ...

Meanwhile, Rwanda’s envoy to the Great Lakes, Vincent Karega, recently told AFP that M23 would “go on in South Kivu because Goma cannot be an end in itself”. Rwandan authorities later claimed these ...

Rwanda has also deployed high-tech military equipment such as mobile air-defense units to North Kivu to support the M23. The UN had long resisted publicly acknowledging Rwanda's direct involvement ...

Rwanda said Wednesday it had made its first oil discovery, with confirmation of 13 reservoirs in Lake Kivu, which makes up part of its border with DR Congo. FRANCE 24's correspondent, Clement di ...

Rwanda's Kagame furious at criticism over support for M23; ... Troops from neighbouring Burundi, which has had hostile relations with Rwanda, support Congolese troops in South Kivu ...