Fighters of the genocidal FDLR militia were given explicit orders to shoot on sight any Congolese soldier fleeing from the battlefield, it has emerged. FDLR, founded by extremist elements linked to ...

The leader of the rebels who captured two key cities in eastern Congo tells The Associated Press that international sanctions ...

There have been several attempts to resolve the spiralling conflict, rooted in the fallout from Rwanda's 1994 genocide and ...

The M23 militia is ruling over a vast stretch of territory in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of Congo, ...

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The Banyene family’s return to Sake, a town in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), was far from a homecoming.

Mine shafts snake under the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo's mountains, but instead of the Congolese government their ...

When the Banyene family were sent back to their home in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, all that had survived the ...

The Rwanda-backed M23 armed group cautiously welcomed Thursday the prospect of direct negotiations with the Congolese government to end the conflict in the volatile eastern Democratic Republic of ...

According to the United Nations, the M23 rakes in US$800 000 per year in taxes on sales of the mineral. Last month, the group captured the towns of Katale, Masisi, Minova and Sake before getting ...

The M23 rebel group's offensive in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo may be causing one of the region's worst humanitarian crises. But businesses are also feeling the effects of the war, with ...

Fighting between M23 rebels and pro-Congo militias was underway on Sunday in Nyabiondo, about 100 km (62 miles) north of Goma in eastern Congo, residents said, days after a nearby attack left a ...