A Rwanda-backed militia seized the pivotal Congolese city of Goma this week, threatening a new humanitarian crisis after ...

M23 rebels have made rapid advances in the latest bout of conflict that has long-dogged the mineral-rich east.

(Reuters) -Rwandan-backed M23 rebels have seized control of Democratic Republic of Congo's eastern provincial capital of Goma ...

According to various media reports, Rwandan troops have concentrated on the border with the Congolese and are ready to invade ...

DRC is a member of the SADC and the East Africa Community, or EAC, while Rwanda is an EAC member.

A major offensive by Rwandan-backed M23 rebels in east Democratic Republic of Congo appeared to have stalled on Saturday ...

Néné Bintou, president of the civil society ... minerals. Rwanda's government, meanwhile, has framed the conflict as the defense of ethnic Tutsis in eastern Congo from ethnic Hutu forces linked ...

The president stopped short of declaring war on Rwanda ... its roots in the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, in which nearly 1 million mainly Tutsis were killed by Hutu extremists. Tutsi rebels, led ...

Since the breakdown in negotiations, the eastern DRC has devolved back into a war zone ... the 1994 Rwandan genocide, when radical members of the Hutu ethnic group attacked their Tutsi neighbors ...

Any showdown over Bukavu, some 200 km south of Goma, which Rwanda-backed M23 rebels seized this week, could exacerbate ethnic ...

Rwandan-backed rebels are gaining ground in eastern Congo despite the unilateral ceasefire they declared earlier this week ...