Residents and business owners in eastern Congo’s second largest city are sitting in wait after a night of loud gunfire ...

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

The U.N.’s top human rights body is holding an urgent session on spiralling violence in eastern Congo, where Rwanda-backed rebels recently captured a major city.

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.

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 ...

The rebels have been emboldened by Rwanda, which feels Congo is ignoring its interests in the region and failed to meet demands of previous peace agreements, according to Murithi Mutiga ...

31 (UPI) --The Democratic Republic of Congo's foreign minister on Friday accused Rwanda of illegally occupying ... in a Tel Aviv courtroom on Wednesday. World News // 1 hour ago Chevron to cut ...