The United Nations Human Rights Council today agreed by consensus to launch an urgent fact-finding mission and commission of ...

The people of Goma in North Kivu are still trying to come to terms with the fallout of the conflict in DR Congo so far.

Congolese authorities said its troops and its allies clashed with the M23 rebel group, supported by Rwandan soldiers, in the mining town of Nyabibwe in South Kivu. "Our positions have been attacked," ...

The Rwanda-backed M23 armed group continued its advance Thursday through eastern Democratic Republic of Congo and looked ...

The Rwandan-backed M23 group on Friday advanced south after seizing the biggest city in mineral-rich eastern DR Congo, in ...

On Jan. 28, the Rwanda-backed rebel group M23 captured Goma, capital city of the Democratic Republic of Congo’s mineral-rich ...

The UN mission in eastern Congo was initially meant to be quickly concluded at the request of Kinshasa. However, the M23 offensive in North Kivu has led to a reassessment. Will the peacekeeping ...

The UN says ... of South Kivu province and home to hundreds of thousands of people. Rwandan-backed M23 rebels entered Goma, the capital of North Kivu and the largest city in eastern Congo, on ...

the largest city in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, since Sunday. UN spokesman Stéphane Dujarric said 2,800 people have been injured, as M23 rebels - backed by Rwanda - captured the capital of ...

Thirty years after the violence, a related border conflict escalates, with control of mineral wealth at stake.

The United Nations' peacekeeping ... Goma in the mineral-rich eastern Congo earlier this week. "The information I have is that M23/RDF are about 60 kilometers north of Bukavu.

The Southern African Development Community (SADC) will dispatch a team to North Kivu in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) to facilitate the ... who are sanctioned by the United Nations. At ...