In an incredible development, the president celebrated a peace deal between the two nations, which could end the decades-long ...

Analysts say it is going to be difficult for the M23 rebels to withdraw from the cities they seized during their major ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda on Friday signed a peace deal facilitated by the U.S. to help ...

A deal signed in Washington has been touted as a major step toward peace in Congo following decades of conflict that has ...

M23 is the most powerful of the roughly 100 armed groups fighting for control in the country’s east, which holds valuable mineral deposits that are critical to much of the world’s technology.

(Reuters) -Rwanda-backed M23 rebels staging an offensive in east Congo said on Saturday they would withdraw forces from the seized town of Walikale in support of peace efforts, having previously ...

M23 has called for an end to what it says is the persecution of Tutsis in Congo and improvements to national governance. "We demand that if there is a dialogue, it be a direct dialogue," he said.

Survivors told Amnesty how they were raped by M23 fighters and threatened with death. In one case, a woman said M23 fighters suspected she was a spy. She said five M23 fighters, wearing military ...

Rwanda-backed M23 rebels on Monday pulled out of peace talks with the Democratic Republic of Congo's government less than 24 hours before the warring parties in eastern Congo's worst conflict in ...

She said five M23 fighters, wearing military uniforms and armed with weapons, gang-raped her. In another case, two men in Congolese military uniforms raped a pregnant woman and abducted her husband.

M23 rebels said they were pulling out of talks with the government of the Democratic Republic of Congo because EU sanctions against Rwandan officials earlier in the day "undermined" negotiations.

When the M23 captured Goma, they announced they had no prisons. John says no further explanation was needed: "That meant whoever is presumed to be a government soldier, or a thief, or whoever ...