The M23 rebels took control of the North Kivu mining town a day after Félix Tshisekedi and Paul Kagame called for an ...

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

The resurgence of the M23 (March 23 movement) rebel group has once again drawn global attention to the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC ... border, in Goma. Most of them have ...

The continent's peacekeepers are key players in its conflict zones. However, southern African troops are withdrawing from one ...

Map showing eastern Democratic ... than 3,000 deaths since January 26 in east DRC around the time of the M23 offensive which saw the group capture Goma. The UN's humanitarian agency OCHA said ...

The ethnic Tutsi militants, who have been intermittently fighting the DRC government for ... 1000 miles away. Google Maps says it is a 47 hour drive from Kinshasa to Goma, some of which is paved ...

But in late January, 10 South African soldiers and three Malawian soldiers died at the hands of rebels in the battle for Goma. Scores were injured as the conflict escalated.

M23 rebels, in the latest of a string of uprisings backed by Rwanda, seized the city of Goma in January and went ... small-scale mining in eastern DRC from International Peace Information Service ...

and immediate reopening of Goma Airport and advice on other facilitative interventions.” The DRC map. —Source: Wires Yesterday, a joint EAC-SADC Chiefs of Defence Forces Meeting was held in Dar es ...

Rwandan support, combined with weaknesses in DRC’s army, enabled the M23 to seize vast amounts of territory in North Kivu ...