US President Donald Trump’s administration initiated the negotiations after DR Congo’s embattled president offered to facilitate US investment in Congo’s vast mineral riches. The offer was in return ...

Only by addressing the structural drivers of conflict in eastern DR Congo can the Human Rights Council begin to restore trust and relevance in a region that has too often been failed by the ...

Having seized Goma in late January and then Bukavu in February, M23 is keen to demonstrate that life there is returning to normal in the wake of fighting that the U.N. says killed at least 7,000 ...

The direct talks between M23 and DRC – which Kinshasa had consistently refused – and the joint declaration are positive steps. But they unfold against an increasingly fragile political landscape in ...

The M23 rebellion has reignited violence in DRC’s mineral-rich eastern provinces, ... The M23 has also taken two important cities, Goma and Bukavu, in the east since the start of the year.

Towns including Uvira, 120 kilometres from Bukavu, the capital of South Kivu in the east of the DRC, ... The 80-day war was a rebellion led by former Katangese gendarmes known as "Tigers", ...

The M23 led a defeated rebellion in DRC back in 2012 but was reactivated by Rwanda a decade later. Kigali denies supporting the group, ... The rebels took over Bukavu – South Kivu’s capital and a city ...

The face-to-face meeting between Felix Tshisekedi and Paul Kagame took place on Tuesday in Qatar, mediated by the emir, in an attempt to find a solution to the security crisis in eastern DRC.

The Rwanda-backed M23 armed group and the allied Alliance Fleuve Congo (AFC) have threatened, detained, and attacked journalists, critics, and civil society activists since capturing Goma in ...

The two men's relationship soured to the point that, as M23 marched on east Congo's second-largest city of Bukavu last month, Tshisekedi told the Munich Security Conference that Kabila had ...

Congo Ex-President Holds Talks on Political Outlook Amid Rebellion, Sources Say By Sonia Rolley and Ange Kasongo (Reuters) - Congo's former President Joseph Kabila has initiated talks with ...

Ex-president breaks silence on M23 rebellion in media; ... The two men's relationship soured to the point that, as M23 marched on east Congo's second-largest city of Bukavu last month, ...