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

The Rwanda-backed 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 ...

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

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." ...

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 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.

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

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

The alliance between the Congolese army, MONUSCO, the Wazalendo, and the FDLR has contributed to the increased militarization ...

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

M23 rebels, in the latest of a string of uprisings backed by Rwanda, seized the city of Goma in January and went on to make gains across North Kivu and South Kivu provinces. The region has a ...