As Rwanda-backed rebels closed in on eastern Congo’s largest city, retreating army soldiers barged into Suzanne Amisi Wilonja’s home near the airport to loot, firing indiscriminately and shooting her ...

Rwanda-backed rebels who captured eastern Congo’s major city of Goma have targeted relatives of fleeing Congolese soldiers.

The M23 movement, supported by some 4,000 Rwandan soldiers, according to U.N. experts, now controls large tracts of troubled eastern Congo. Its rapid advance has sent tens of thousands fleeing.

Some 7,000 people have died since January in fighting in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, the prime minister of the ...

Congo says over 7,000 people have died this year as Rwanda-backed M23 rebels have captured unprecedented amounts of territory ...

Defeated soldiers from the Southern Africa Development Community’s (SADC) peace mission were seen leaving Goma by road ...

An army spokesperson did not respond to a request for comment about the incident in late January in Goma. The United Nations ...

Congo’s president says he is going to launch a unity government as violence spreads across the country’s east and pressure ...

Authorities say a boat carrying people fleeing the ongoing rebel advance in eastern Congo has capsized and that 22 people have been killed ...

Until now, the international response to the rapidly escalating crisis in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, where the ...

GOMA, Congo (AP) — The Rwanda-backed rebels who seized a major city in eastern Congo declared a unilateral ceasefire Monday, citing humanitarian grounds, but there was no sign of them giving up ...