Tens of thousands of IDPs are leaving and routine is tentatively returning, as residents hope for peace despite crisis.

United Nations agencies called for an end to the violence in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) as fighting ...

The crisis in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) escalated at the end of January 2025 when Goma, the capital of the province of North Kivu, fell to Rwanda-backed M23 rebels.

The M23 group of the alliance of rebel groups in the eastern part of the DRC, known as the Congo River Alliance declared a unilateral ceasefire for humanitarian reasons in a statement on Monday. The ...

Rwanda-backed forces in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) have announced that they will pause their advance across the east of the country for humanitarian reasons. The AFC/M23 rebel ...

M23 formed in 2012 when Tutsi soldiers broke away from the Congolese Army saying promises made to them in the 2009 agreement had not been kept.

The Rwanda-backed M23 armed group has rapidly seized swathes of territory in the mineral-rich eastern DRC in an offensive that has left thousands dead and displaced vast numbers.

Now head of the Congo River Alliance (CRA) and allied with the Rwanda-backed M23, Corneille Nangaa Yubeluo has seized key cities, including Goma, and vows to march on Kinshasa. Sentenced to death in ...

the capital of North Kivu in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), as the city fell to the Rwanda-supported armed group, the M23. This brings the number of South African soldiers killed ...

The eastern DRC city of Goma was seized by M23 rebels and their Rwandan allies on 26 January. Residents have emerged to count the dead and make sense of the fast-moving offensive. Some small traces of ...

Tshisekedi has rebuffed calls from the East African Community because it wants the DRC to negotiate with the M23. The DRC president said he will only negotiate directly with Rwanda. Advertisement ...

"Your silence and inaction are an affront to the DRC," Tshisekedi said about the international community in a televised address to his country on Wednesday night. Up to 4,000 soldiers from Rwanda are ...