Walikale Stories

The prospect of a ceasefire in the strategic town of Walikale, which the M23 rebels captured last week, had briefly fuelled hopes of reviving stalled...

It would have been their first direct engagement with DR Congo's government after President Felix Tshisekedi reversed his longstanding refusal to spea...

Walikale is the farthest west the rebels have reached in an advance that has already overrun eastern Congo's two largest cities since January.