Rwanda-backed rebels are closing in on the key eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo city of Bukavu, promising to continue their lightning offensive until they take the national capital. The bloody ...

The Southern African Development Community intervention force in the mission in the DRC is outgunned and outmanned.

The Southern African Development Community is meeting in Harare, Zimbabwe, on Friday to discuss the crisis in the eastern ...

Critical minerals factor into the fight.

The Ugandan army said that its troops stationed in eastern DR Congo would adopt a "forward defensive posture" amid escalating fighting in the region.

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

A Rwandan spokesperson denies the charges, saying it is trying to prevent the conflict spilling over.

We will stay here in Congo and fight. If we do not stay alive here, let’s stay dead here,’ said Congo’s defence minister.

The Rwandan-backed armed group M23 moved south as it closed in on a key military airport in DR Congo on Friday, a day after ...

In 2012, when M23 rebels appeared poised to seize control of a major city in eastern Congo, western countries suspended aid ...

In June last year, Rwanda's government spokesperson Yolande Makolo hit out about the presence of mercenaries in eastern DR ...

Parts of the Democratic Republic of the Congo are under siege by a Rwanda-backed rebel group. The violence has killed UN peacekeepers, overwhelmed hospitals, displaced hundreds of thousands and ...