Congo on Thursday banned Al Jazeera satellite news network over its interview with the leader of a violent rebel group that ...

Civil society and a local politician say rebels with the M23 group have seized two key towns in eastern Congo as they advance ...

KINSHASA - Rwanda-backed M23 rebels have seized a strategic eastern town near the provincial capital Goma in Democratic ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Congo’s President Felix Tshisekedi speaks during a press conference at the Elysee Palace in Paris, April ...

FILE - M23 rebels stand with theirs weapons in Kibumba, in the eastern of Democratic Republic of Congo, Dec. 23, 2022. (AP Photo/Moses Sawasawa, File) GOMA, Congo (AP) — Fighting between the ...

Competition for minerals is one of the main drivers of conflict as armed groups sustain themselves and buy weapons with the ...

Congo is a major source of tin ... of the main drivers of conflict as armed groups sustain themselves and buy weapons with the proceeds of exports, often smuggled via Rwanda, according to U.N ...

The United Nations on Tuesday condemned an offensive waged in the Democratic Republic of Congo by the Rwanda-backed M-23 rebel movement and urged it to honor a ceasefire agreed last summer.

At least 23 Congolese soldiers face severe penalties, including potential death sentences or long-term imprisonment, for various alleged crimes amid ongoing conflict in the country's eastern region.