GOMA, Congo (AP) — Panic spread in Goma on Thursday, with M23 rebels steadily inching closer to the city in eastern Congo as they battle the Congolese army. Bombs were heard going off in the distant ...

The M23 armed group has seized further territory in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo and on Thursday was ...

Botswana's President Duma Boko aims to finalize a diamond sales agreement with De Beers shortly. Most issues have been resolved, with a signature expected imminently. Botswana, owning a 15% stake, ...

The latest offensive happened last week when the M23 rebels took Masisi, the administrative centre of the Masisi territory, in North Kivu. Days before, they’d captured another town Katale. Thousands ...

As fighting continued in and around Masisi town on 9 January, thousands of people including residents, MSF and Ministry of ...

The M23 rebels have been trying to make inroads in mineral-rich eastern DR Congo, along the border with Rwanda, in a decades-long conflict that has sparked one of the world's largest humanitarian ...

What does the capture of Masisi mean for M23’s offensive in eastern DRCongo?

A new United Nations report has found that more than 100,000 people have been displaced since the start of the year in ...

The group took control of Masisi, a town and local administrative centre about 80km (50 miles) from the major city of Goma, on Saturday, provincial parliament member Alexis Bahunga told the ...