The heavily armed rebels do not act alone. They are backed by neighbouring Rwanda, according to the UN and the US. Rwanda ...

Régine Mbuyi, Executive Secretary of the Bureau National Catholique de l’Enfance, told Crux that chronic war in the eastern DRC has led to the recruitment of children as combatants.

The UN has confirmed M23 rebels committed summary executions of children in Bukavu, as human rights abuses in eastern DRC sharply escalate.

"I don't think that justice can exist in Congo," she says. "I condemn the way the government is running things." The DR Congo government ... according to a source. Child prisoners - held in ...

M23 fighters, backed by Rwanda, continue to advance into eastern DR Congo ... by around 4,000 Rwandan soldiers. More than 7,000 people have been killed in eastern Congo since January, DRC Prime ...

The southern African regional bloc decided Thursday to end its military deployment to the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo where it lost at least a dozen soldiers in conflict there in January.

JOHANNESBURG — South Africa completed Wednesday the evacuation of 127 troops from the front lines of the conflict in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, four of whom were critically wounded, the ...

Central to their campaign is the assertion that ethnic Tutsis living in DR Congo are being persecuted ... uncle's son were killed by Congolese soldiers and local militia fighters.