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 conflict has driven up the demand for charcoal (locally known as makala in Swahili) in Goma, the capital of North Kivu province. ... Having advanced to Bukavu, ...

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 ...

In Bukavu, Congolese soldiers retreated in long columns before M23 had even attacked the city. ... Map locates Goma, Bukavu, Uvira, Bunia and Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

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 ...

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.

Citing what she described as reliable sources, Shamdasani said three boys were shot dead by M23 fighters in Bukavu’s Latin Quarter after refusing to put down guns they had collected from an ...

After Goma, DRC's Bukavu falls under M23 rebels' control. The armed group, backed by several thousand Rwandan soldiers, has taken the capital of South Kivu province.