Congo and Rwanda will sign a peace agreement in Washington on June 27, a joint press release from the nations and the U.S.

The Rwandan-controlled M23 armed group has deported over 1,500 people from occupied eastern Democratic Republic of Congo to ...

The head of the U.N. peacekeeping mission in Congo met with leaders of the Rwanda-backed rebel group M23 on Friday in Goma, ...

Goma/Bukavu, Democratic Republic of the Congo — "Civilians continue to die and live in fear." After a rapid advance saw Rwanda-backed M23 rebels seize the two largest cities in eastern ...

Map by Joel Masselink ... the forests of Virunga supplied charcoal to Goma and the one million residents of Bukavu, the capital of South Kivu. However, with access to Virunga restricted, Kahuzi ...

Soon after, M23 took the town of Bukavu, in South Kivu province, and the group has expanded operations in North Kivu. M23 rebels say that they intend to seize power in Kinshasa, 1,600 km (1,000 ...

Map locates Goma, Bukavu, Uvira, Bunia and Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of Congo. On paper, Congo appears well placed to deal with threats coming from its much smaller neighbor. Experts ...

The rebels captured Goma, the capital of North Kivu, in late January and took Bukavu on 16 February. Now, they appear to be heading for Uvira, a strategic city on the shores of Lake Tanganyika. By 18 ...

M23 rebels captured Bukavu, the capital of the eastern DRC’s South Kivu province, on 16 February with little resistance from government forces. Bukavu is a commercial hub of about 1.3 million ...

UNITED NATIONS, UNITED STATES — The Democratic Republic of Congo on Monday criticised the "inaction" of the UN Security Council in the wake of the M23 armed group seizing the city of Bukavu, according ...

“Our office has confirmed cases of summary execution of children by M23 after they entered the city of Bukavu last week. We are also aware that children were in possession of weapons,” she sai ...

In the Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwandan-backed M23 rebels have captured the city of Bukavu. As government forces retreated, a wave of violence and looting swept through the provincial capital.