M23 rebels Stories
Residents and officials described scenes of looting, bodies lying in the street, and government soldiers commandeering boats to flee across Lake Tanga...
Burundi has had soldiers in eastern Congo for years, initially to hunt down Burundian rebels there, but more recently, to aid in the fight against M23...
Three Congolese military sources said the decision to retreat was made to avoid the bloodshed that accompanied the fall of Goma, eastern Congo's large...
M23 said its forces moved in to "assist the population" after the city was "abandoned by Kinshasa's coalition forces."
Guterres was speaking on the first day of the annual meeting of the regional organisation, held at African Union Headquarters in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia...
Eyewitnesses said they reached Bukavu's northern suburb Bagira on Friday evening but did not enter the city centre.
M23 rebels have been pushing south towards Bukavu, the second-largest city in eastern DRC, since they seized Goma, the largest city, at the end of las...
African Union analyst Emmanuel Bensah told DW from Accra, Ghana, that it is crucial that African leaders attending the summit in Addis present concret...
The summit is expected to issue further directives to facilitate a sustainable ceasefire between the warring parties under the two peace processes, as...
Heavy shelling was reported along the frontline on Tuesday morning, rebel, military and local sources told Reuters.
Addressing allegations of atrocities at Munzenze Central Prison, M23 distanced itself from the incident, claiming the violence occurred before its for...
Sources privy to the closed-door deliberations during the joint EAC-SADC summit reveal that it was Rwandan President Paul Kagame who proposed the expa...
He proposed the formation of a Joint Technical Team under the regional secretariats of the East African Community (EAC) and the Southern African Devel...
Despite announcing a unilateral ceasefire, the Tutsi-led rebels have continued to march south towards the capital of South Kivu, Bukavu.
Dozens of countries at the meeting condemned rights violations in Congo including several African states. Washington, formerly a vocal council member,...
Vaccination programmes were partially restored on February 5, after the M23 declared a ceasefire, however, the situation remains "tense and volatile",...
President Kagame dismissed the idea of holding more meetings without concrete action.
The closure has severely disrupted the delivery of food, water, and medical aid for up to two million people.
During a separate meeting on Friday, ministers had urged all armed groups to lay down their weapons unconditionally.
