When Mobutu fled Kinshasa, the Kabila-Kagame coalition won the First Congo War in 1997. Kabila was installed as president of Zaire and changed the country’s name back to The Democratic Republic ...

Rwandan-backed rebels have occupied a second major city in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). The Congo River Alliance, a group of rebel outfits including M23, said in a statement its ...

U.N. peacekeepers have been supporting the Congolese army’s efforts to curb the M23 as part of the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s ...

Feb. 17 (UPI) --M23 rebels in the Democratic Republic of Congo captured the eastern city of Bukavu with the backing of Rwandan forces, the second major city in the mineral-rich Kivu region to fall ...

By Elian Peltier and Justin Makangara Elian Peltier reported from Dakar, Senegal, and Justin Makangara from Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo. Rebels in the Democratic Republic of Congo on ...

Rwandan-backed M23 rebels who in late January captured Goma, the biggest city in eastern Congo, have since been advancing around one of Africa's great lakes, Lake Kivu, towards the second-biggest city ...

M23’s advance in Democratic Republic of Congo sparks fears of regional war The clashes have resulted in over 3,000 deaths, including 20 peacekeepers from South Africa, Malawi, and Tanzania, and ...

Talks are under way among leaders of African countries to end fighting in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), which ...

Rwanda-backed rebels have reached the center of east Congo’s second-largest city, Bukavu and are present in most parts of the city after little resistance from government forces.

On February 12, Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs Jean-Noël Barrot spoke with Thérèse Kayikwamba Wagner, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, International Cooperation and Francophonie of the ...