As Rwanda-backed M23 rebels in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo push south towards the city of Bukavu, they are likely to ...

Any showdown over Bukavu, some 200 km south of Goma, which Rwanda-backed M23 rebels seized this week, could exacerbate ethnic ...

A Rwanda-backed militia seized the pivotal Congolese city of Goma this week, threatening a new humanitarian crisis after ...

Rwandan -backed rebels who have swept through eastern Congo this week met resistance from the army and its allies including ...

A shifting political calculus by sponsors of the M23 rebel group risk triggering another war in the Great Lakes Region, underscoring the importance of African mediators and global partners acting ...

Rwandan-backed M23 rebels asserted their control over east Congo's largest city Goma on Thursday by calling on residents to ...

Rwandan-backed rebels who have swept through eastern Congo this week met resistance from the army and its allies including ...

Rwanda-backed Congolese rebels from the M23 movement have announced the capture of the major city of Goma in the eastern ...

The First Congo War (1996–1997) began in the wake of the 1994 Rwandan Genocide, during which ethnic Hutu extremists killed an estimated one million minority ethnic Tutsis and moderate Hutus in ...

It has severed diplomatic relations with neighbouring Rwanda, which supports rebel Tutsi ... local Hutu ethnic group against the Tutsi ethnic group. Then, when the genocide ended and the Tutsis ...

UN secretary-general Antonio Guterres has warned that the M23 offensive risks spiralling into a broader regional war ... when Hutu extremists murdered close to 1 million Tutsis and moderate ...