Analysts weigh in on Rwanda’s role in the conflict in DRC, whether minerals are a factor and if diplomacy can succeed.

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

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

The Democratic Republic of Congo's foreign minister on Friday accused Rwanda of illegally occupying part of its territory, ...

Gunfire rang out across parts of Goma, the largest city in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), hours ... of human life in view of the manifest intentions of Rwanda,” he said ...

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 M23 has also imposed salongo (Lingala for forced labour) on the people living in the areas controlled by the group to widen the roads between Rubaya and Kirolirwe, and between Kibumba and ...

The Rwanda-backed M23 armed group has ... the worst may be yet to come for the people of the eastern DRC but also beyond the country's borders." Turk said nearly 3,000 people had been confirmed ...

Leaders from east and southern Africa don call on all warring parties - including di Rwanda-backed M23 rebels - to meet ...

He warned instead that Rwanda itself is at risk of attack from across the border. “We categorically oppose the DRC’s attempts to portray Rwanda as being responsible for its instability in the ...

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 ...