Heads of state attending the African Union summit are expected to hold a high-level meeting on the escalation of violence in ...

The M23 rebel group have captured the city of Goma in the eastern DRC in a major escalation of a drawn-out conflict.

Rwandan President Paul Kagame has told CNN he doesn’t know if his country’s troops are in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), where fighting between the M23 armed group and Congolese ...

The reactions of Uganda and Burundi, both of which border the DRC and Rwanda, bear witness to this. These two countries also have troops in the DRC under bilateral agreements with Kinshasa.

The conflict between Rwanda-backed forces and the Democratic Republic of Congo is often presented as a struggle to control ...

The simmering conflict between Rwanda and the DRC, which share a border, has since exploded following the M23’s advance into Goma. Rwandan government spokesperson Yolande Makolo told CNN that ...