The health system is under severe strain, facing overcrowded hospitals and shortages of vital medicines and equipment.

The ;M23 armed group cautiously welcomed Thursday the prospect of direct negotiations with the Congolese government to end the conflict in the volatile eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.Since its ...

The March 23 Movement (M23) has claimed the capture of D’idjwi Island in D’idjwi territory, South Kivu province, eastern ...

BUKAVU, Congo — Rwanda-backed rebels have occupied a second ... stood in front of the South Kivu governor’s office in Bukavu and told residents they have been living in a “jungle." ...

Fighting in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has thrown into sharp focus sponsorship deals involving the Rwanda ...

Angola, Burundi, and Zimbabwe are certainly unlikely to back Rwanda. The 12,000 troops Burundi had stationed in South Kivu to support the Congolese army are now withdrawing, but there is little love ...

The Rwanda-backed M23 armed group and the allied Alliance Fleuve Congo have threatened, detained, and attacked journalists, ...

Kinshasa, its capital, is 1,500km from the provinces (South Kivu, North Kivu and Ituri) that border the other Great Lakes countries (Burundi, Rwanda and Uganda). The advance of M23, a Rwandan ...

Six weeks after Rwanda-backed rebels captured the eastern Congolese cities of Goma and Bukavu, the region is facing a setback ...

The current fighting is the result of a decision by Congolese President Felix Tshisekedi to incite ethnic violence and to support groups that perpetrated the Rwanda genocide.

It has warned that it would not return the $410 million already paid by London to Kigali. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Rwanda recently said similar restrictive measures introduced ... where the rebels now control the capitals of the provinces ...