White-flag incident As we interacted with the M23 Major at his airport base, a soldier came and informed him that one of the SADC contingents had lowered their white flags.

The European Union’s response to the armed conflict in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo has not matched the rapid advance of the Rwanda-backed M23 armed group. But the March 17 targeted ...

Others waved flags that read “martyr of honesty and moral integrity ... The fighting escalated earlier this year when the ...

In a watershed joint statement, the warring Democratic Republic of Congo and M23 group released a joint statement on Wednesday pledging to an "immediate" cessation of hostilities until talks reach ...

Rwanda-backed M23 rebels are reportedly occupying Bukavu, Democratic Republic of the Congo, the second major city in the country's mineral-rich east to fall under their control.

Rwandan-backed M23 rebels say they are now in control of the key eastern Congolese city of Goma. Their fighters continue to claim more territory in one of the world's most mineral-rich territories.

The Rwanda-backed M23 armed group and the allied Alliance Fleuve Congo (AFC) have threatened, detained, and attacked journalists, critics, and civil society activists since capturing Goma in ...

We'll look at the latest developments in the instability and violence in a region of the Democratic Republic of Congo, where Rwanda-backed fighters are battling Congolese troops.

M23 now controls nearly all of North Kivu and the province’s vast mineral wealth—including tin (cassiterite), tantalum (coltan), tungsten (wolframite), and gold, which are critical for global ...

Protesters in Kinshasa, the capital of Democratic Republic of Congo, have been burning portraits of Rwanda's president and tearing up Rwandan flags as M23 rebels have taken control of most the ...

Democratic Republic of Congo President Felix Tshisekedi has vowed “a vigorous and coordinated response” against a rebel alliance that has besieged swaths of the nation’s mineral-rich east ...

People who fled M23 rebels around Goma, in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, have found themselves with nowhere left to go.