Last month, M23 rebels backed by Rwanda took the city of Goma in a bloody battle. This weekend, the group entered the gold-trading center of Bukavu in eastern Congo after government soldiers fled.

Item 1 of 3 Smoke billows from Bukavu Central Prison buildings, a day after the prison break as Rwandan-backed M23 rebels advanced into the centre of Bukavu, Democratic Republic of Congo February ...

M23 Rebels Threaten to Advance on Bukavu as Fighting Flares (Reuters) -The Rwandan-backed M23 armed group in Democratic Republic of Congo threatened on Tuesday to advance on the provincial capital ...

A United Nations report says Rwanda provided critical support to the M23 rebels who seized key cities earlier this year in ...

Rwanda-backed M23 rebels are reportedly occupying Bukavu, Democratic Republic of the Congo, the second major city in the country's mineral-rich east to fall under their control.

The Congolese government says it targeted an aircraft which rebels claim was delivering food aid before it was blown up in ...

The decades-long conflict in eastern Congo escalated in January, when the Rwanda-backed M23 rebels advanced and seized the ...

Heineken has lost operational control and withdrawn its staff from its facilities in conflict-affected areas of eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, the Dutch brewer said on Friday.

Local officials say a Congolese soldier has shot and killed two of his colleagues while a third died of critical injuries in an altercation in the country’s east that left others wounded, local ...

The head of the U.N. peacekeeping mission in Congo met with leaders of the Rwanda-backed rebel group M23 on Friday in Goma, in her first visit to the eastern city of Goma since its capture by the insu ...

The Congolese government said rebels were in Bukavu and accused Rwandan troops of also entering the city. It stopped short of saying the city was fully under M23's control.

M23 rebels threaten to advance on Bukavu as fighting flares. By Reuters. February 11, 2025 7:00 PM UTC Updated February 11, 2025 Item 1 of 2 Members of the M23 rebel group supervise ...