Panic and looting sweep through eastern Congo’s second-largest city as residents flee by the thousands to escape the advance ...

Panic and looting are sweeping through eastern Congo’s second largest city as residents flee by the thousands to escape the ...

GOMA, Congo (AP) — Rwanda-backed M23 rebels have entered east Congo’s second-largest city of Bukavu, residents and a community leader say.

Rwanda is facing mounting international pressure over its role in the conflict in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo as the ...

Thirty years after the violence, a related border conflict escalates, with control of mineral wealth at stake.

M23 now controls nearly all of North Kivu and the province’s vast mineral wealth—including tin (cassiterite), tantalum ...

The Democratic Republic of Congo accuses Rwanda of seeking to profit from the region's mineral wealth, which is sought for use in electronics -- a claim backed by UN experts, who say Kigali has ...

Rwanda-backed M23 pushes on in DR Congo The M-23 took Goma, the capital of North Kivu province after intense fighting earlier this week and has pushed further, vowing to march all the way to the ...

A map of Africa highlights two countries: Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo, along with two major Congolese cities, Kinshasa and Goma.

which holds vast deposits critical to much of the world’s technology. They are backed by around 4,000 troops from neighboring Rwanda, according to U.N. experts, far more than in 2012 when they ...