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

Critical minerals factor into the fight.

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.

A conflict that has raged for decades reached a flashpoint this week when rebels backed by Rwanda marched on a key Congolese ...

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 ...

Rwanda-backed Congolese rebels from the M23 movement have announced the capture of the major city of Goma in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Reports indicate casualties among ...

Intense combat between Congolese forces and Rwandan-backed fighters on Sunday edged closer to the major city of Goma in ...

The AFC/M23 rebel coalition announced late on Monday that it would implement a unilateral ceasefire starting on Tuesday. The ...

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 ...