(Reuters) -When M23 rebels swept into the Congolese city of Goma this week, world powers urged them to immediately withdraw. Instead, the Rwanda-backed insurgents are intent on showing they can ...

Hopes of peace in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo are fading after new clashes erupted in Uvira on Friday.

Rebel leader Corneille Nangaa has openly expressed the M23's ambition to advance towards Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo. Just days after seizing control of Goma, the M23 ...

Hopes that conflict would end this year were dashed after M23 advanced on key city Uvira despite US, Qatar peace deals.

GOMA, Congo (AP) — Rwanda-backed M23 rebels claimed to have begun a withdrawal from the city of Uvira in eastern Congo late ...

Rwanda-backed rebels have "occupied" a second major city in mineral-rich eastern Congo, Congo's government said Sunday, as M23 rebels positioned themselves at the governor's office in Bukavu and ...

A week on from their entry into Goma in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, the M23 and their Rwandan allies no longer hide their plan to expand the territory they hold. While morgues in North ...

Goma, a key hub in Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, fell to the M23 rebels and Rwandan forces earlier this week after days of fierce street combat with Congolese forces in the city of over 2 ...

Rwanda-backed rebels in eastern Congo entered the region’s second-largest city of Bukavu on Friday, local and civil society leaders said, the latest ground gained since a major escalation of their ...

They raised the prospect of further expansion of territory under their control. DRC’s government has called the takeover a “declaration of war” by neighboring Rwanda. Goma, a regional hub of over 2 ...

STORY: Rwandan-backed rebels appear keen to show they can not only seize the biggest city in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo - but also govern it. That's a stark contrast to the last time M23 ...