The rapidly evolving conflict between the armed group M23/Alliance Fleuve Congo (AFC) and the Congolese army in Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has intensified since December 2024, displacing hundreds of thousands of people and resulting in many casualties and violent injuries.
The advance of Rwanda-backed M23 rebels into Democratic Republic of Congo's South Kivu province threatens to trigger a humanitarian catastrophe in an area already housing thousands of displaced people,
MONUSCO, the U.N. peacekeeping force in the DRC, said the reported killings were under investigation but remained unverified.
U.K. authorities are punishing Rwanda over its support of the rebels who now control two major cities in eastern Congo.
The rapidly evolving war in Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has intensified since December 2024, displacing hundreds of thousands of people
The eastern DRC, scene of decades of relentless conflict, has been plunged into fresh turmoil as fighters from the M23 group backed by Rwanda seize swathes of territory in the provinces of North and South Kivu.
Locals at a village in the embattled North Kivu province of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC ... in the provinces of North Kivu and South Kivu, which have seen heavy terrorization by another ...
M23 rebels in the Democratic Republic of Congo have captured the eastern city of Bukavu with the backing of Rwandan forces, the second major city in the mineral-rich Kivu region to fall in three weeks.
Until now, the international response to the rapidly escalating crisis in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, where the Rwanda-backed M23 armed group has committed a litany of grave abuses, has been all talk and no action.
The Red Cross Society of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC Red Cross), the International Committee ... having been forced from their homes elsewhere in North and South Kivu, sometimes repeatedly," said Grégoire Mateso Mbuta, president of the ...