The M23 rebel group that is backed by Rwanda has emerged as a more potent force after being crushed during their first ...
(Reuters) -Congolese troops with support from Burundi's army appeared on Friday to be holding back a push south by ...
NAIROBI — An armed rebel group backed by Rwanda took full control of a key provincial capital in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo on Wednesday, residents said, after days of bloody ...
The rebels' swift advance in the DRC's eastern region including the capture of the area's biggest city - Goma - has shocked ...
Tshisekedi did not attend the summit while Rwanda's President Paul Kagame did. M23 rebels captured Goma, a city of 2 million people and capital of North Kivu province, on Monday. Rwandan forces ...
The offensive by Rwanda-backed M23 rebels has led to 773 bodies in morgues around Goma, escalating the humanitarian crisis ...
Protesters in Kinshasa, the capital of Democratic Republic of Congo, have been burning portraits of Rwanda's president and tearing up Rwandan flags as M23 rebels have taken control of most the eastern ...
While government forces still control pockets of Goma, residents who spoke to The Associated Press by phone on Tuesday said that the M23 rebel group was in control of much of the city. The M23 ...
People protest in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo, on Tuesday, against the Rwanda-backed M23 rebels’ advances into eastern Congo’s largest city, Goma. The Associated Press Congolese ...
People displaced by the fighting with M23 rebels make their way to the center of Goma, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Sunday, Jan. 26, 2025. (AP Photo/Moses Sawasawa) People displaced by the ...
“Let the people of Goma be calm, peace is here,” said Willy Ngoma, a spokesman of the M23 group. Ngoma, who is on the U.N. Security Council’s sanctions list for crimes committed by the rebels.
“So you have nobody to trust.” Her fears encapsulated those of many Congolese uprooted by the M23 rebels' violence over the years. Already. more than 1,200 Congolese — including some ...