M23 rebels in Congo, backed by Rwanda, capture Walikale, dismissing calls for a ceasefire. This escalates a long-standing ...

The leader of Rwandan-backed M23 rebels in eastern Congo said on Thursday that a call by Kinshasa and Kigali for an immediate ceasefire "doesn't concern us" as his forces pushed deeper into Congolese ...

The M23 rebels, backed by Rwanda, have taken the strategic town of Walikale in eastern Congo, escalating regional tensions.

The face-to-face meeting between Felix Tshisekedi and Paul Kagame took place on Tuesday in Qatar, mediated by the emir, in an ...

Getting around the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo can be a real headache. Moving Kinshasa's 17 million inhabitants requires tenacity and resilience. The hundreds of thousands of ...

Over the last 10 days, Kinshasa has won some battles; the US imposed sanctions on a Rwandan State minister James Kabarebe and M23 political spokesperson Lawrence Kanyuka.

The Luanda talks are expected to usher in peace and end a war that has claimed thousands ...

The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has agreed to participate in direct peace talks with the Rwanda-backed M23 rebels in ...

The presidents of Congo and Rwanda met on Tuesday, 18 March, in Doha, Qatar. According to Kinshasa, they agreed to a ...

In other developments, the recently identified clade 1a virus that has the APOBEC3 mutation, linked to more transmissibility, has been reported from Kinshasa.

The Rwanda-backed M23 group said it would not attend Tuesday's peace talks with the DR Congo government in the Angolan ...

Brussels finally approved sanctions on 17 March against senior Rwandan military and M23 officials. The rebels, who are supposed to be heading to Luanda, Angola, for talks with Congolese authorities, ...