Will offers of resource wealth to the US and other powers help bring militia violence to heel in the Democratic Republic of ...

A conflict that has simmered in Democratic Republic of Congo’s eastern borderlands for years is set to erupt into a wider ...

By Fergus O’Leary SimpsonJoel MasselinkLara Collart The resurgence of the M23 (March 23 movement) rebel group has once again ...

The latest conflict in eastern Congo has exposed endemic weaknesses in the country’s military, long known for corruption, extortion and abuse.

It is generally accepted by analysts that this pressure – such as a US$240 million aid cut by a variety of donors – played a key role in ending the 2012-2013 M23 conflict. While actors such as ...

But a document seen by Reuters in February said the status of the bloc's mission to Congo needed to be discussed with parties to the conflict. The M23 rebels have seized east Congo's two biggest ...

M23 is one of about 100 armed groups that have been vying for a foothold in mineral-rich eastern Congo near the border with Rwanda, in a conflict that has created one of the world’s most ...

Mine shafts snake under the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo's mountains, but instead of the Congolese government their ...

M23 rebels have seized east Congo's two biggest cities since January in an escalation of a long-running conflict rooted in the spillover into Congo of Rwanda's 1994 genocide and the struggle for ...

Feb. 20 (UPI) --The U.S. Treasury Department issued sanctions Thursday against figures related to M23 rebels in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The Treasury announced sanctions against Rwanda ...