Rwanda-backed rebels were expanding their presence in eastern Congo after capturing Goma, the region's major ... Rebels repelled as young people volunteer to fight An attack by the rebels in ...

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The Rwandan-backed insurgents' seizure of Goma this week and ongoing offensive southwards are the biggest escalation since 2012 of a decades-old conflict the U.N. says risks spiralling into ...

Critical minerals factor into the fight. By Ruth Maclean Rebels backed ... On Monday, they captured Goma, a major Congolese city along the Rwandan border. (They grabbed it once before, in 2012.) ...

Goma natives Justin Kabumba and Moses Sawasawa brought their deeply personal expertise to bear when Rwandan-backed M23 rebels began their push toward the eastern Congo city of Goma. Sensing a larger ...

The fall of Goma to the March 23 Movement (M23 ... Others are calling for weapons so they can join the fight in the east. Calls for an immediate ceasefire and the pullout of Rwandan troops ...

Five days after the outbreak of fighting in Goma, the capital of North Kivu province, in the far east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), how many corpses have been floating in the lake?

Just before the M23 seizure of Goma, it was providing emergency aid to more than 800,000 people just around the city and 1.5 million in Congo's four eastern provinces.

Goma, one of the DRC's largest cities with more than one million people, is an important trading and transportation hub that sits near the DRC-Rwandan border, off the shore of Lake Kivu. East DRC has ...

Tshisekedi leveled criticism at the international community for standing idly by as the rebels seized control of the DRC town of Goma and continued ... continue to fight with the central ...

Rwanda-Backed Rebels Bed Down in Congo's Goma and Push South for Further Gains (Reuters) -The United Nations expressed deep concern at reports of M23 rebels and Rwandan troops advancing south ...