ShareWith another humanitarian crisis confronting the world in the Democratic Republic Congo, it is time for concrete action ...

Eastern Congo is facing its most severe crisis in years as M23 rebels, backed by Rwanda, tighten their grip around the ...

On Sunday, M23 forces captured a fishing town on the west coast of Lake Edward in the eastern DRC. Rebels have stepped up ...

A U.S. official says Congo and Rwanda have submitted a draft peace proposal as part of a U.S.-led process that could end ...

Virtually all banks are closed. Currency shortages abound. Staples prices have jumped. Now residents are finding themselves ...

which will serve as the bank for the city of Goma where all banks have closed since the city was taken by the M23 rebels, in Goma, North Kivu province in the East of the Democratic Republic of ...

Congolese government forces and Rwanda-backed M23 rebels have agreed to a temporary ... The M23 has seized two major cities in eastern DRC — Goma and Bukavu — killing over 7,000 people and ...

April 24 (UPI) --The Presidency of the Democratic Republic of Congo announced a cease-fire between its government and the Rwandan-backed M23 rebels ... the city of Goma, where the United Nations ...

The decades-long conflict in eastern Congo escalated in January, when the M23 rebels advanced and seized the strategic city of Goma, followed by the town of Bukavu in February. M23 is one of about ...

Al Jazeera’s Alain Uaykani, reporting from the eastern DRC city of Goma, said the two sides ... Many were former rebels integrated into the DRC army who later defected, citing discrimination ...

seizing Goma and Bukavu - eastern Congo's two largest cities - and sparking fears of a wider regional war. DR Congo accuses Rwanda of arming the M23 and sending troops to support the rebels in the ...