Congolese authorities see the M23 rebels as a Rwandan proxy army driven to illegally exploit eastern Congo’s vast mineral resources, whose value is estimated in the trillions of dollars.

Unlike in 2012 when M23 first captured Goma and withdrew after days as international pressure grew, their rebellion this time is different in various ways. Wives of Congolese government soldiers ...

But the political sands in DR Congo are ever shifting - Makenga eventually defected from the army to join the rising M23 rebellion. The M23 had become ... sentenced by the International Criminal Court ...

Under the Alliance Fleuve Congo – the political wing of the M23 rebellion – this goal later expanded into a broader national agenda aiming to overthrow the regime in Kinshasa. Whether this ...

The embassies of Rwanda, Uganda, France and Belgium were also targeted on Tuesday amid an offensive by the M23 rebels in the country's east and growing unrest in the West African nation.

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.

The fall of Bukavu represents the most significant expansion of territory under the M23’s control since this latest rebellion started in 2022. The Congolese government confirmed that rebels had ...

Advertisement Treasury alleged that M23 is responsible for human rights abuses including killings, sexual violence and attacks against civilians that have occurred during its armed rebellion ...

The UN Security Council on Friday unanimously adopted a resolution calling Rwanda to end its support for the M23 rebel group ...

The M23 rebellion stems partly from Rwanda’s decades-long concern that other rebels — ethnic Hutus opposed to Rwanda’s government and accused of participating in Rwanda’s 1994 genocide ...

But the political sands in DR Congo are ever shifting - Makenga eventually defected from the army to join the rising M23 rebellion ... Criminal Court (ICC) to 30 years for war crimes.