M23 formed in 2012 when Tutsi soldiers broke away from the Congolese Army saying promises made to them in the 2009 agreement had not been kept.

Congolese troops with support from Burundi's army appeared on Friday to be holding back a push south by Rwandan-backed rebels ...

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The Southern African Development Community is meeting in Harare, Zimbabwe, on Friday to discuss the crisis in the eastern ...

Critical minerals factor into the fight.

As the rebels gained the upper hand in the battlefield by capturing most of Goma - the biggest city in the east - South ...

Rwanda’s President Paul Kagame has reaffirmed that he is committed to collaborating with other countries to find a lasting solution for the ongoing conflicts in the Eastern Democratic Republic of ...

The Rwandan-backed armed group M23 moved south as it closed in on a key military airport in DR Congo on Friday, a day after ...

The two ministers spoke a day after Rwanda’s President Paul Kagame took exception to a statement by President Cyril Ramaphosa ...

The fall of Goma in North Kivu marks a temporary low point in eastern DRC’s decades-long turmoil.

On January 27, M23 rebels, a group synonymous with the March 23 Movement claimed that they had taken over Goma, on the ...