The M23 movement, supported by some 4,000 Rwandan soldiers, according to U.N. experts, now controls large tracts of troubled eastern Congo. Its rapid advance has sent tens of thousands fleeing.

The defection ceremony took place in front of the provincial police headquarters, drawing the attention of the local ...

The prime minister said she wanted to hear how the UN sees the conflict being resolved -- and how the UN resolutions can ...

Rwanda-backed rebels who captured eastern Congo’s major city of Goma have targeted relatives of fleeing Congolese soldiers.

Congo says over 7,000 people have died this year as Rwanda-backed M23 rebels have captured unprecedented amounts of territory in its mineral-rich eastern region. And the European Union says it ...

Some 7,000 people have died since January in fighting in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, the prime minister of the ...

Judith Suminwa says more than 2,500 bodies buried without identification, ‘significant’ number of civilians among dead.

DR Congo's prime minister said Monday that "more than 7,000" people have been killed in the east of the country since January ...

Violence raging in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo has killed "more than 7,000 compatriots", many of them civilians, ...

An army spokesperson did not respond to a request for comment about the incident in late January in Goma. The United Nations ...

Congo’s president says he is going to launch a unity government, as violence spreads across the country’s east and pressure ...