Thirty years after the violence, a related border conflict escalates, with control of mineral wealth at stake.

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

The largest city in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has long been a ... and to protect Tutsis, the ethnic group partly extinguished by that highly organised orgy of killing.

Nearly 3,000 people were killed over the last week as rebels captured a key city in one of the deadliest battles in the ...

There is a good chance that inside your mobile phone is a miniscule amount of a metal that started its journey buried in the earth of eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, where a war is currently ...

Rebels claim to have captured the key city of Goma in the DRC, as the decades-long conflict becomes even more volatile. Sky ...

The group, backed by thousands of troops ... The fighting in the DRC is linked to decades of ethnic conflict. M23 says it is defending ethnic Tutsis, who fled to the DRC amid the 1994 genocide ...

A deadly insurgency is sweeping the Democratic Republic of Congo, a country three times the size of Texas ... computers and electric vehicle batteries. The rebel group M23 is vying to expand its ...

Rwandan-backed armed group M23 announced a humanitarian “ceasefire” from Tuesday in DR Congo’s explosive east, days before a planned crisis meeting between Congolese President Felix Tshisekedi and ...

The Rwandan government has often argued that it has a right to protect ethnic Tutsis living in the DRC, particularly those who face persecution at the hands of hostile armed groups or the ...

The DRC has been rocked by conflict for more than 30 years since the 1994 Rwandan genocide. At the heart of the current crisis is the resurgence of the M23 rebel group led by ethnic Tutsi.