As the Congolese government and Rwanda-backed M23 rebels prepare to engage in direct talks in Doha this week, a mix of hope ...

The capture of Goma and Bukavu, the regional capitals of North and South Kivu respectively in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) by the 23 March Movement (M23), strongly supported by ...

Rwanda-backed rebels battling Congo's army have pushed into a strategic, mineral-rich town in the east, ignoring calls for a ceasefire this week by the Congolese and Rwandan presidents as the M23 ...

In a Feb. 8 letter to Trump, Félix Tshisekedi, president of the Democratic Republic of Congo, offered mining opportunities for the U.S. Sovereign Wealth Fund, an entity Trump had launched a few ...

M23 fighters in the back of a pickup truck in Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo, in January, after taking control of the city.Credit...Guerchom Ndebo for The New York Times The M23 militia is ...

Goma/Bukavu, Democratic Republic of the Congo — "Civilians continue to die and live in fear." After a rapid advance saw Rwanda-backed M23 rebels seize the two largest cities in eastern ...

Rwanda-backed M23 rebels have pushed deeper into the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), capturing ... northwest of eastern DRC’s largest city, Goma, which the M23 rebels seized ...

Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. The crisis in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is getting worse.

Congo and Rwanda reaffirmed their commitment to an immediate ceasefire, but the joint statement does not specify on how it would be implemented. DR Congo’s President Felix Tshisekedi met with ...

But after negotiations with Ukrainian President Volodomyr Zelenskyy stagnated he is looking at another war-torn nation facing an invader as another option: The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).

For several years, the conflict in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has plunged millions of people ... The Kanyaruchinya, Lushagala, and Bujari refugee camps on Goma-Rutshuru Road in ...

The conflict in eastern Congo escalated in January when the Rwanda-backed rebels advanced and seized the strategic city of Goma, followed by Bukavu in February. M23 is one of about 100 armed ...