The U.N. says Rwanda-backed rebels are expanding their presence in eastern Congo after capturing the region’s major city.

Effective healthcare in the first days of a child’s life, emergency medical services for patients, and complex care such as in the case of cancer and complicated surgeries, should be given priority ...

Now living amongst the destruction caused by days of fighting between the Congolese army and the Rwanda-backed M23 group, ...

The Rwanda-backed armed group M23 vowed on Thursday to march on the DR Congo capital, Kinshasa, as its fighters made further ...

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

Local sources said Kigali-backed fighters were advancing on a new front and had seized two districts in South Kivu province, ...

Democratic Republic of Congo President Felix Tshisekedi has vowed “a vigorous and coordinated response” against a rebel ...

As M23 rebel forces, allied with Rwandan troops, now control the city of Goma in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, "there ...

Britain has warned Rwanda that its involvement in an escalating conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo could jeopardise ...

The leader of the former rebel group that toppled Syrian President Bashar Assad is named the country's interim president.

Rebels backed by Rwanda captured more towns in eastern Congo as fighters moved beyond the key city of Goma in an apparent ...

Residents of the besieged city of Goma, in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo, say they are gripped by fear as ...