“We’re there, we’re there in Bukavu,” said Willy Ngoma, a M23 spokesman reached by telephone. On Sunday, the rebels addressed a crowd of people in Bukavu’s main square after they entered ...

University students in Bukavu are gradually returning to class for the first time since Rwanda-backed rebels took their city ...

"Not a night goes by in Bukavu without finding three or four bodies on the street. Bodies also emerge from the lake," report local church sources in Bukavu, the capital of the Congolese province of ...

The health system is under severe strain, facing overcrowded hospitals and shortages of vital medicines and equipment.

Having already lost Congo's main eastern city of Goma, near the Rwandan border, the forces deployed to defend Bukavu and its 1.3 million people hastily packed up and left. Direct clashes with the ...

A deadly explosion at a rally in Bukavu, eastern DRC, led to the deaths of 12 people. The blast, blamed on both the Congolese ...

Blasts Kill 11 at Rally in Eastern Congo, Rebels Say (Reuters) - Explosions killed 11 people and wounded 65 at a rally held by M23 rebels in the eastern Congo city of Bukavu on Thursday ...

The explosives that hit a huge crowd of people who had turned up in their thousands for an AFC/M23 rally in Bukavu, on February 27, caused the death of at least 11 people and injured 65, of whom six ...

Rwanda-backed rebels in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) have promised to “restore security” in Bukavu, the second major city in the country’s east to fall under the control of the ...

Angola has announced plans to act as a mediator in the conflict between Congo and the Rwandan-backed rebel group M23.