By Fergus O’Leary SimpsonJoel MasselinkLara Collart The resurgence of the M23 (March 23 movement) rebel group has once again ...

The Rwanda-backed rebels who captured key areas of Congo’s mineral-rich east say they have withdrawn from planned peace talks ...

Bukavu is the latest city to fall into the hands of the M23, also known as the March 23 Movement, which in recent months has seized swathes of territory in the eastern DRC after again taking up ...

linked to the M23’s advance in North and South Kivu. It was gathered that hundreds of thousands of people in the Eastern DRC have so far been displaced with 10,000 to 15,000 fleeing into Burundi ...

Soldiers from the Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo still patrol the streets of Bukavu (Democratic Republic of the Congo), February 14, 2025. AMANI ALIMASI / AFP The rebels of ...

Rwanda-backed M23 rebels on Monday pulled out of peace talks with the Democratic Republic of Congo's government less than 24 ...

Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni recently said he is ready to assist with peace initiatives in the DRC. M23 leaders have said they plan to go all the way to Kinshasa. “We ... do not know ...

The M23 rebel group entered the outskirts of Bukavu, a city of 1.3 million in eastern DRC, in mid-February 2025. This happened two weeks after Goma, another city in the region, came under the ...

Two explosions in the second-largest city in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) on Thursday killed at least 11 people and injured around 65. The blasts occurred at a meeting of leaders of the ...

UN experts say Rwanda effectively controls M23 and has at least 4,000 troops fighting alongside it. The DRC government accuses Rwanda of "expansionist ambitions" and says it is stealing vast ...