M23 fighters have been pressing to capture strategic eastern city for months and intensified offensives in recent days.

Last June the president of Rwanda, Paul Kagame, said he was ready to go to war with the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRCongo) if necessary. He still hasn’t formally declared war, but 3,000-4,000 ...

The United Nations, African Union and East African Community condemned the capture of the city, putting Rwanda in the ...

Rwanda-backed Congolese rebels from the M23 movement have announced the capture of the major city of Goma in the eastern ...

More than 120 Congolese fighters have been disarmed in Rwanda, the Rwandan army said Monday, as a Kigali-backed armed group entered the Goma, a key city in DRC's perennially restive east.

Back in 2012, pressure on Paul Kagame, Rwanda’s president, by donor countries including America preceded a swift ouster from Goma of M23 by UN peacekeepers. That scenario seems less likely this time ...

A rebel group aligned with Rwanda says it seized a key trading hub in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, raising the ...

Rwanda’s dollar bonds fell Monday after a rebel group aligned with the country said it had seized a key trading hub in the ...

In an op-ed in the Financial Times on Sunday, Jason Stearns, author of The War That Doesn’t Say Its Name: The Unending Conflict in the Congo, accused the west of soft-peddling on Rwanda, which he ...

GOMA, Jan 27, 2025 (BSS/AFP) - The besieged Congolese city of Goma was rocked by heavy artillery fire on Monday as France ...

Congolese government spokesperson Patrick Muyaya said Kinshasa wanted to prevent "carnage," with Rwanda's forces in the east of the country. It comes after the M23 group claimed to have taken the city ...